Obedience Quotes
824 Obedience quotes by 491 unique authors
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Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the…
— Adam Clarke
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We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.
— Herman Melville
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Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many waking hours in…
— David O. McKay
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Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.
— Carlton Pearson
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God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience
— Charles Stanley
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Harmony is the inlet of God into the mind, so that the mind acts in obedience to a law above mind - and that law…
— Ernest Wood
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How often have I been guilty of being the Holy Spirit in their lives? It is my job along with my husbands to impart truth…
— Carolyn Mahaney
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We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is…
— Alfred Edersheim
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There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
— A B Simpson
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Because Jesus Christ has prepared Himself from the foundations of the world we can trust Him as one uniquely qualified through the fullness of His…
— David Wright
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One of the greatest fruits of obedience is bold confidence in prayer.
— Karen Wheaton
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The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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If you desire anything less for yourself than absolute obedience to God, a life of total devotion to the Lord, a life of absolute sin-less-ness…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.
— Alfred Edersheim
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When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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... the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these…
— Erich Raeder
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To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people…
— Stephen Covey
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To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As…
— Ernest Renan
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The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.
— Howard Zinn
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The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what…
— Bob Jones, Sr.
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Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.
— Muhammad Ali
Who Wrote These Obedience Quotes
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