Obedience Quotes
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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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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.
John Ruskin
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The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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!
Brigham Young
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Boyd K. Packer
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Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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obedience is a great danger.
E. M. Broner
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Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.
Benedict of Nursia
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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.
Bertrand de Jouvenel
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The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.
Martin Luther
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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.
William Wilberforce
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Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas Carlyle
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Obedience sets a woman apart, fills her with life, permits her to be God-blessed.
Elaine A. Cannon
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If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ?
Gardiner Spring
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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.
Kay Arthur
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I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and 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.
Elizabeth Goudge
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A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.
Jerry Bridges
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I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.
Gerald Stern
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I cannot but take notice of the wonderful love of God to mankind, who, in order to encourage obedience to His laws, has annexed a present as well as a future reward to a good life; and has so interwoven our duty and our happiness together that, while we are discharging our obligations to the one, we are at the same time making the best provision for the other.
William Melmoth
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They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.
Mahatma Gandhi
