Obedience Quotes

824 Obedience quotes by 491 unique authors

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel… — Brent Weeks
If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country,… — Howard Zinn
Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation. — Eleanor Roosevelt
To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is… — Elisabeth Elliot
But all I could see was her. No skill of mine, no artist anywhere, could’ve immortalized how gorgeous she was. It was impossible to believe… — Richelle Mead
In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are… — Alice Miller
I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age,… — William Shakespeare
Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience. — Charles Spurgeon
The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. — Samuel Johnson
There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns… — Klaus Balkenhol
Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only. — Bell Hooks
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. — Henry David Thoreau
If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot… — Martin Gardner
Every time you open up your heart in obedience to God and worship Him with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul,… — Darlene Zschech
If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been… — Erwin W. Lutzer
Lawful worship consists in obedience alone. — John Calvin
Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is… — Benjamin Franklin
My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not… — Neale Donald Walsch
The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer… — Andrew Carnegie
How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food and drink, dress,… — John of Kronstadt
The way of the gospel is a simple way. Some of the requirements may appear to you as elementary and unnecessary. Do not spurn them.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and… — Gary Wolf
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who… — Saint Ignatius
He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further… — Saint Ignatius

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