Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair. — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“But he who knows not when to obey shall find that he's really obeying his rebellious lower aspects. His animal nature, if… — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day. — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my… — James Gilmour Copy Share Image
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“we can use marriage for the same purpose—to grow in our service, obedience, character, pursuit, and love of God.” — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
Those who have had the most impact and influence throughout history and certainly the people who've had the most impact and influence… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors'… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Obedience comes with pain. Often, the first effect of obedience is not blessings, but suffering. Sometimes, what obeying requires of us will… — London Mond Copy Share Image
How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
“Natural selection builds child brains with a tendency to believe whatever their parents and tribal elders tell them. Such trusting obedience is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
But all I could see was her. No skill of mine, no artist anywhere, could’ve immortalized how gorgeous she was. It was… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes… — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Light, cannot exist without darkness. As such, in order to maintain the survival of one, the other must be kept within docility. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Make obedience your fundamental. If you prioritize obedience, everything else will fall into place. Prioritizing obedience in the face of stress is… — Rachel Jankovic Copy Share Image
By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
“There is a unique pleasure in obedience. The answer of a good conscience brings into the heart a peace and satisfaction that… — Karen Andreola Copy Share Image
Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I believe Christians often perceive obedience to God as some test designed just to see if we’re really committed to Him. But… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success-oriented, not because we know it is offensive to… — Josh Hunt Copy Share Image
God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
