Obedience Quotes

824 Obedience quotes by 491 unique authors

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought. — Napoleon Bonaparte
It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or… — Walt Disney
Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are… — Rajneesh
In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience. — Richard J. Foster
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager. — John Taylor Gatto
My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they… — Oswald Chambers
Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command,… — Frances Power Cobbe
Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people. — Keith B. McMullin
Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the duties, and the… — Samuel Williams
Obedience is less painful than regret. — Christine Caine
Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace. — Thomas a Kempis
Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth… — Milton R. Hunter
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. — Benjamin Franklin
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. — Ulysses S. Grant
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. — Edwin Louis Cole
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry… — Annie Dillard
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. — Jonathan Edwards
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command. — Havelock Ellis
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. — Augustus Hare
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any… — Alexander Herzen
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. — Robert E. Lee
I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it. — John Gresham Machen
Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live. — Joyce Meyer
I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town,… — James Otis

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