“Obedience is the performance of a request, but submission comes from the heart.” — Deborah Smith Pegues Copy Share Image
Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.” — Brother Andrew Copy Share Image
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way. — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
“A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
“They would say,” he answered, “that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“An angle of worship is birthed through our surrender to obedience. One of the ways we love and worship God is by… — Carol Wambui Ngabura Copy Share Image
What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you tell God 'no' because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Sin, in the final analysis, is rebellion against the sovereign Creator, Ruler, and Judge of the universe. It resists the rightful prerogative… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“Because God has accredited or imputed Jesus' perfect obedience to you, when God looks upon you, he sees you as a person… — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“(re: Matthew 7:21 - "Knowing the correct password - saying 'Master, Master', for instance - isn't going to get you anywhere with… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“One day, Father Alvarez, finding himself overwhelmed with business, was anxious to get rid of it, in order to go and pray,… — Alphonsus Maria de Liguori Copy Share Image
