Obedience Quotes

824 Obedience quotes by 491 unique authors

When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body."… — Simone Weil
Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. — Austin Farrer
Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who deserve respect and… — Mata Amritanandamayi
... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and… — Hannah Hurnard
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the… — Ignatius Loyola
Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death. — Ray Comfort
To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of… — John Nelson Darby
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of… — Bede Griffiths
Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty. — George Bernard Shaw
Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It… — Alison Lurie
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my… — Susan B. Anthony
Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God. — L. Tom Perry
But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power. — Howard Zinn
I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be turned by the… — Richard G. Scott
Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience. — Martyn
Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space… — Audrey Niffenegger
We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy. — Seneca the Younger
Obedience decks the Christian most. — Friedrich Schiller
The first great law is to obey. — Friedrich Schiller
Obedience is the Christian's crown. — Friedrich Schiller
The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly. — Thomas a Kempis
In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall… — Myriam Miedzian
Even the Savior of the world, the Only Begotten Son of God, was obliged to come to earth and to take upon himself an earthly… — Alma P Burton
Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and… — Charles Kimball
Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure Thee to take… — Alphonsus Rodriguez

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