Obedience Quotes
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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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The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
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Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.
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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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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
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We are His children in Very deed, having been born of Him in the spirit, and we have inherited the very attributes which he possesses. They are in us, and they make us God's embryo, We believe that as we are now God once was, and by the practice of virtue and righteousness, by obedience unto law and authority, He has become what He is, and as He is, man may become, on the same principle.
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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?
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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.
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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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People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.
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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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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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The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.
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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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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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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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Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
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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.
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Let them obey that knows not how to rule.
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The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.
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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.
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
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To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.
