Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to… — David Platt Copy Share Image
In prosperity, GOD tests our gratitude; in poverty, our contentment; in darkness, our faith; at all times our obedience! GOD Bless You! — Azgraybebly Josland Copy Share Image
“Some still need to be convinced that enacted obedience is essential to salvation. Those who are already persuaded need a more robust… — Matthew W. Bates Copy Share Image
“I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one… — Maria McCann 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
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
[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
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
Whistleblowing constitutes a nice test case for the evaluation of loyalty. Loyalty also appears at the intersection of many major philosophical debates:… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
“Occasionally we believe that there must be an easier way, a shortcut or modification of the Lord’s commandments that will accommodate our… — Bruce A. Carlson Copy Share Image
It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love.… — Thomas a Kempis 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
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
Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them. — Kathryn Hulme 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
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
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
“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
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
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
Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO… — Eric Liddell Copy Share Image
“so also by the obedience of one man, righteousness having been introduced, shall cause life to fructify in those persons who in… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Obedience, unconditional obedience, is the catch-word of tyrants of every description, and to render 'assurance doubly sure,' one kind of despotism supports… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft 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
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
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
Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Over and over again, people had to disobey lawful authority to follow the voice of their conscience. This obedience to God and… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
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