Obedience Quotes

824 Obedience quotes by 491 unique authors

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of… — Howard Zinn
TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once… — Walt Whitman
Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions. — Rick Warren
Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a… — D. H. Lawrence
But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and… — Mikhail Bakunin
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders… — Banksy
Smee, you are a supreme idjit." "Aye, Cap'n. — Ridley Pearson
Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when… — Stanley Milgram
The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent… — A. J. Jacobs
I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely. — Cassandra Clare
Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living… — Mahatma Gandhi
O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i… — Brother Lawrence
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How… — Elisabeth Elliot
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will… — Elisabeth Elliot
When we truly understand what it means to love as Jesus Christ loves us, the confusion clears and our priorities align. Our walk as disciples… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
If you are feeling more yourself, there is a problem best addressed immediately," said the queen. "In my nightshirt?" The king wriggled, as ever, out… — Megan Whalen Turner
I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense… — Jamaica Kincaid
When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty… — Oswald Chambers
It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to… — Timothy B. Tyson
Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably… — Gail Carson Levine
Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to… — Elisabeth Elliot
I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different,… — Eve Ensler

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