Obedience Quotes
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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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Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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 want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.
William Carey
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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.
John Ruskin
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It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
Carolyn Wheat
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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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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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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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obedience is a great danger.
E. M. Broner
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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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Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.
Boyd K. Packer
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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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Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.
Cennino Cennini
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Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.
Eric Liddell
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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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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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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
