Obedience Quotes

824 Obedience quotes by 491 unique authors

Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it glorious. It is… — Orison Swett Marden
She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed. — Ursula K. Le Guin
If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such… — Samuel Adams
The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us. — Jerry Bridges
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin. — John Owen
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will… — John Henry Newman
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. — John Stuart Mill
Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to… — Kevin DeYoung
Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if… — Noam Chomsky
It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership. — Gregory of Nazianzus
Success is not a pursuit...but the result of obedience to the Divien and Natural laws of Life established by the Creator — Myles Munroe
Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom — Pope Benedict XVI
Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience — Erich Fromm
One thing you can be assured of is that God has already worked out all the details of what your obedience will accomplish - and… — Lysa TerKeurst
Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience. — Matthew Henry
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an… — Ambrose Bierce
Men will be held accountable for the things which they have and not for the things they have not. ... All the light and intelligence… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
When the Lord wants to give us a mission, wants to give us a task, He prepares us. He prepares us to do it well...What… — Pope Francis
I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him,… — Roger Sherman

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