“When we submit to God, when we call upon His Name and give Him the glory as we trust Him, we can… — Paddick Van Zyl Copy Share Image
“Your theology won't always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your heart. If… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“Lewis’s hero George MacDonald once put it (and as the children’s journey to Aslan behind Lucy’s leadership demonstrates), “Obedience is the opener… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the… — Adolf Eichmann Copy Share Image
[R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh,… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence,… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
“One must require from each one the duty with each one can perform," said the king. "Accepted authority rests first of all… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
“The "hillbilly" girls were generating more enriched Tubealloy per run than the PhDs had...The District Engineer understood perfectly. Those girls...had been trained… — Denise Kiernan Copy Share Image
Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“God structures his authority based on how he operates internally—that is, how each member of the trinity sees and interacts with each… — Reid A. Ashbaucher Copy Share Image
As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“You can force compliance with your directions, you can require obedience, but you can’t mandate enthusiasm, creativity, fresh thinking, or inspiration. If… — Roger Nierenberg Copy Share Image
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Whatsoever the Lord Jesus commands you, do it, irrespective of consequences. Many who greatly delight to expatiate on the "Whosoever" of John… — Alexander Marshall Copy Share Image
Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
“There was the old myth of divine intervention. You blasphemed, and a lightning bolt struck you. That was a little steep too.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty…Friendship,… — Joseph Bonanno Copy Share Image
“Self-denial means knowing only Christ, and no longer oneself. It means seeing only Christ, who goes ahead of us, and no longer… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that there is only… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your… — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
Most people think that Christianity is spelled DO: they look at the Bible or the life of Christ, and they simply try… — Darrin Patrick Copy Share Image
“The mind commands the body, and obedience is instant; the mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind tells the hand to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The case is this: God offers you one of the greatest mercies on this side of heaven and commands you to accept… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“We need both reverence and obedience. If we worship but do not walk in obedience and discipline, we are emotional, lacking self-control… — Amy Layne Litzelman Copy Share Image
“How simple it seemed, obedience did, when she loved the man she obeyed so completely. There was nothing he could order her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God beckons storm clouds and they come. He tells the wind to blow and the rain to fall, and they obey immediately.… — David Platt Copy Share Image