Obedience Quotes
-
Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.
William Shakespeare -
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
-
Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.
Alphonsus Liguori -
The Gospel of Judas turns Judas' act of betrayal into an act of obedience. The sacrifice of Jesus' body of flesh in fact becomes saving. And so for that reason, Judas emerges as the champion and he ends up being envied and even cursed and resented by the other disciples.
Craig A. Evans -
The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people.
Keith B. McMullin -
The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.
Eric Liddell
-
If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.
Paul Ricoeur -
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas Carlyle -
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 -
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
-
obedience is a great danger.
E. M. Broner -
The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.
George Washington -
Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.
Martin Luther -
That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.
Andrew van der Bijl -
In short, Christians in general are everywhere denominated the servants and the children of God, and are required to serve him with that submissive obedience, and that affectionate promptitude of duty, which belong to those endearing relations.
William Wilberforce
-
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The Lord commands the wife to be submissive. Refusal to submit to the husband is therefore rebellion against God Himself. Submission to the husband is a test of her love for God as well as a test of love for her husband. The wife then must look upon her submission to her husband as an act of obedience to Christ and not merely to her husband.
Wayne Mack -
God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand.
Erwin McManus