“You're wrong Heinrich. While it might seem easy to believe, you and I aren't actually the same. You've been fighting someone else's… — Luther Blissett Copy Share Image
I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When the Lord wants to give us a mission, wants to give us a task, He prepares us. He prepares us to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“Obedience through fear is reluctant and resentful. Obedience through gratitude is joyful, instant, and spontaneous. Gratitude is like an overflowing stream, positive,… — Daw Nyein Tha Copy Share Image
One mustn't allow acting to be like stoc kbroker - you must not take it just as a means of earning a… — John Gielgud Copy Share Image
“This light, and this only, has its fruit in an universal holiness of life. No merely notional or speculative understanding of the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your… — Bob Jones, Sr Copy Share Image
In God's name, Monsieur, let us remain indifferent; let us strive to be equally attached to whatever obedience marks out for us,… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The really important thing in life is not the avoidance of mistakes, but the obedience of faith. By obedience, the man is… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“By strict obedience Jesus won. He did not succumb to Satan’s temptings. And if we do what the Lord says, we have… — Elaine Cannon Copy Share Image
What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him,… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
“My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if perchance I choose to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Love withers under constraints. Its very essence is liberty; it is comparable neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear; it is there most… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guidelines and commandments to help ensure… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better,… — James Brady Copy Share Image
“The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior--or lack… — Tara Leigh Cobble Copy Share Image
If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
Naturally we all have an inclination to command, and a great aversion to obey; and yet it is certain that it is… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
“Not so much in obedience, as in surprise and fear: for on the raising of the hand, he became sensible of confused… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries… — Ron Sider Copy Share Image
If you are feeling more yourself, there is a problem best addressed immediately," said the queen. "In my nightshirt?" The king wriggled,… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings… — Gary North Copy Share Image
“The Reformation cracked the marble walls of empire, but the restoration still calls to us today. We are living in another awakening,… — Angel Tate Keaton & Todd G Keaton Copy Share Image
I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
The uppermost idea with Hellenism is to see things as they really are; the uppermost ideas with Hebraism is conduct and obedience.Nothing… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image