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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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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Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
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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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For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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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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Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.
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The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
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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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Obedience to authority saves many skins.
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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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 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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Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
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If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.
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Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.
