Obedience Quotes
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.
I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.'
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.
Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.
You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.
The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.
Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.
Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield.
Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.
The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.
Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship.
Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.
What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!
Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.
Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.
The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.
