Obedience Quotes
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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
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Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than thou in worthiness. Learn humble mindedness beforehand, which the Lord commanded in word and showed forth in deed. Hence, do not expect obedience from others, but be ready for obedience thyself.
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Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.
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The very resource of Holy Spirit empowerment granted to Jesus for his life of obedience and faithfulness to the Father is now granted to Jesus’s disciples as they carry forward the message of Christ, living lives of obedience to Christ, all in the power of the Spirit.
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Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.
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Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.
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It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
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For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
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True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.
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The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
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All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
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Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.
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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
