Obedience Quotes

824 Obedience quotes by 491 unique authors

...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth. — Mark Helprin
Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. — Adam Johnson
Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her.… — Elizabeth Goudge
If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in… — Elizabeth Goudge
There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience. — Patrick Rothfuss
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political… — Naomi Wolf
In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who… — Thomas Merton
There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture and can never… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If… — Mother Teresa
Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the primary, primary again.… — Charles R. Swindoll
Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him… — Timothy Keller
It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants… — Charles Colson
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not… — C.S. Lewis
...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience. — Andy Stanley
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules. — Aristotle
the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that… — Baruch Spinoza
A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER — Darynda Jones
Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of… — Charles Spurgeon
Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic. — Trudi Canavan
Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience. — Steven Furtick
This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience. — Lauren Oliver
We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or… — David Platt
If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me,… — Richard Rohr

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