Obedience Quotes
824 quotes by 491 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
— Baruch Spinoza
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.
— Antony Flew
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The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection.
— John Dod
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