Obedient Quotes
241 quotes by 185 authors
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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
— Gautama Buddha
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For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author of the laws…
— Brian Ellis
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Be obedient to the bishop and to one another, as Jesus Christ was in the flesh to the Father, and the apostles to Christ and…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven,…
— Adolf Eichmann
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The most important things that any member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever does in this world are: 1. To marry…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies, to do our…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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While I have no problem with the church adapting to the culture, we must ensure that we remain painstakingly true to the Gospel of Jesus…
— Jerry Falwell
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Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them…
— Russell M. Nelson
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Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel. There is an…
— Boyd K. Packer
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Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as…
— Boyd K. Packer
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Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Only the believing obey, only the obedient believe
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Listen to your parents. Be obedient to them whether you agree with them or not. They love you more than anyone else and have your…
— James E. Faust
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To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the supreme Law-giver, on…
— Pope Leo XIII
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Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient…
— Paul Gauguin
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The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and holy.…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Who Wrote These Obedient Quotes
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