Obedience Quotes

• 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
  • God
  • Fear
  • Joy

• Obedience to authority saves many skins.

  

  Sophocles
  • Authority
  • Skins
  • Obedience

• It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and servility toward themselves, but also in adoration.

  

  Etienne de La Boetie
  • Train
  • Tyrants
  • Adoration

• The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Measure

• Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

  

  William Ames
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Progress

• 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
  • Strong
  • Ability
  • Conviction

• Ask yourself whose voice are you listening to? What you see in me is the result of prayer and hard work and obedience to the voice of God.

  

  Folorunsho Alakija
  • God
  • Listening
  • Prayer

• 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.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Law
  • Obedience
  • Tyrant

• Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people.

  

  Keith B. McMullin
  • People
  • Faith
  • Spirituality

• 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
  • God
  • Law
  • Marriage

• Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.

  

  John Bevere
  • Spiritual
  • Maturity
  • Obedience

• If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Dreams
  • Obedience
  • Spirits

• Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Obedience
  • Intentions
  • Substitute

• ‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Work
  • House
  • Heaven

• Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Law
  • Liberty
  • Oneself

• Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Society
  • Law
  • Powerful

• There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Friends
  • Voice
  • Conscience

• Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Perfect
  • Happiness
  • Obedience

• 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.

  

  Dorothea Dix
  • Attention
  • Obedience
  • Cellars

• All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Crime
  • Extraordinary

• Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Demand
  • Obedience
  • Team Player

• God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience...whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed...It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.

  

  George Hodges
  • God
  • Duty
  • Obedience

• Growth happens in community because the Bible places community as a critical step of obedience for the Christ follower. So the Christ follower outside of community is living in disobedience.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Community
  • Christ
  • Follower

• Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Transform

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