Change Quote by Kamala Markandaya

“When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes a quest, in that movement God endows us with power.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

“She was choosing obedience over comfort--God's will over hers--and the reassurance that infused her at the realization was nothing short of miraculous.”

— Kelly L. Ward

“Hers was a tone and manner that assured the listener they had only two choices; obedience or death.”

— Loretta Chase

“but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend…

— Jane Austen

“But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“She had been forced by the rules her maker had imposed on her to sacrifice herself for the human. It wasn’t that she wouldn’t…

— wildbow

“She hadn't promised obedience—but she would give it to the right person. Scarlet”

— Kit Rocha

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”

— Celeste Ng

“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?”

— Hilary Mantel

“Obedience is not a virtue. I wanted to please everyone but myself, and I had to lose everything to learn that lesson. For my…

— Kathryn Wesley

“She would have been obliged to allow, if any one had said it to her, that what she submitted to could not take the…

— George Eliot

“...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...”

— John Geddes