Obedience Quotes
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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.
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I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can’t, and you hate yourself because you can’t, and all the time love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some hard thing that you do. And this in a way is easier because with God’s help you can command your will when you can’t command your feelings. With us, feelings seem to be important, but He doesn’t appear to agree with us.
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Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
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Let them obey that knows not how to rule.
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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.
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Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.
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Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
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The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
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The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
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To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.
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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.
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Love is the foundation of all obedience.
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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.
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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.
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The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.
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That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.
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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.
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Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.
