We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
People in obedience to the Lord do not worry, do not fret, do not need to know all of the outcomes before… — Reinhard Bonnke Copy Share Image
Do Christians sin? Yes, absolutely. But can Christians live in a state of sin without discipline and without being brought back in… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wife's submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the… — Steve Pearce Copy Share Image
Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls,… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Faith that trusts on Jesus alone for salvation, and not on your respectable life, and the obedience that follows Him, are the… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
We're not called to live by human reason. All that matters is obedience to God's Word and his leading in our lives.… — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
I see a wonderful future in a very uncertain world. If we will cling to our values, if we will build on… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“If the followers of the Oversoul are kept blind, if they can't judge the Oversoul's purpose for themselves, then they aren't freely… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“In obedience to God’s Word we should fight to walk in the paths where he has promised his blessings. But when and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The gospel produces not just obedience, you see, but a new kind of obedience3—an obedience that is powered by desire. An obedience… — J.D. Greear Copy Share Image
“enforce obedience thereto. The object, on either side, doth not justify the means; for the lives of men are too” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The relationship between the obedience of Gods people and the triumph of Gods cause is not a relationship of cause and effect… — John Howard Yoder Copy Share Image
Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them. — Kathryn Hulme Copy Share Image
If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“God is not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the purpose of God; be faithful to Him.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Dear God, Give me the heart to obey you through the ups and the downs. Whatever the cost may be. Love, Me. — Myah Copy Share Image
One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Our obedience to God’s commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“Because the vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Faith and obedience are inescapably related. There is no saving faith in God apart from obedience to God, and there can be… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
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