Obedience Quotes
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The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.
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Love is the foundation of all obedience.
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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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Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.
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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
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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?
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Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.
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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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Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel. There is an obedience that comes from a knowledge of the truth that transcends any external form of control. We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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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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When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.
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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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That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.
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Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.
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If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.
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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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God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand.
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We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.
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What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.
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Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.
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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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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.
