Obedience Quotes

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Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as… — William Ames
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit… — Benjamin Disraeli
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the… — Matthew Henry
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs… — Richard J. Foster
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows… — Mahatma Gandhi
No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and… — Ayn Rand
He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust: let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every… — John Owen
Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will. — Alphonsus Liguori
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience,… — Walter Bagehot
Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than a right of… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety. — Baruch Spinoza
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our… — C.S. Lewis
Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it… — Tom Robbins
A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility… — Ammon Hennacy
The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow. — Martin Luther
We are taught in an especial manner to pray that God would give his Holy Spirit unto us, that through his aid and assistance we… — John Owen
The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love. — Antony Flew
The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection. — John Dod

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