Obedience Quotes
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Love is the foundation of all obedience.
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Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!
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To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.
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That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.
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Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large.
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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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Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
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God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
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Obedience sets a woman apart, fills her with life, permits her to be God-blessed.
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The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.
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If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.
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According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It’s a matter of obedience, not emotion.
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God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.
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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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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.
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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.
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A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
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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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You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.
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So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully. So we compromise. We do some of what we should, thus removing the stigma of disobedience. But we refrain from the most difficult or objectionable or uncomfortable part, and thus try to get the best of both worlds.
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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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A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
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It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
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If obedience is the chief thing good stood upon, why are not other laws and statutes urged as strictly as those which concern ceremonies?
