Obedient Quotes
241 Obedient quotes by 185 unique authors
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We are all welcome to come into the waters of baptism. He was baptized to witness to His Father that He would be obedient in…
— Robert D. Hales
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I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have sworn...as the white…
— Mary Stewart
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Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike…
— Helen Keller
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The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
— A B Simpson
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do…
— Florence Nightingale
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Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.
— Tina Fey
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How would you describe the spiritual aroma of your home? The source of this aroma is the relationship between husband and wife. Many can fake…
— Douglas Wilson
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I had the luck of having an obedient body.
— Burt Lancaster
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There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to our Heavenly Father in prayer.…
— Robert D. Hales
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Remember that you must always have a deep regard for courtesy, and you must be respectful and obedient toward your seniors.
— Gichin Funakoshi
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
— Edward Abbey
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and…
— Sinclair Lewis
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You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork.…
— George Carlin
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To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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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
Who Wrote These Obedient Quotes
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