Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.
Stephen Covey
Quotes to Explore
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The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.
Lorenzo Snow
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Alexander Berkman
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Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience.
Saadi
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The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.
David Jeremiah
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If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
D. A. Carson
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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
Aristotle
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Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.
John Ruskin
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People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.
Alfie Kohn
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That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.
Andrew van der Bijl
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Obedience . . . allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord.
Athos M. Amorim
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What is courage? It is the ability to be strong in trust, in conviction, in obedience. To be courageous is to step out in faith - to trust and obey, no matter what.
Kay Arthur
