Obedient Quotes

A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

In the same way humans have domesticated sheep and other animals by murdering the strong ones and breeding the docile, obedient ones, the powers-that-be have done the same with the masses.

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

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.

I model my life after my Lord and Master Jesus Christ and his life. He has called me into God's family and I am a representative for him so I just try to be obedient to what He asks me to do.

No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God’s people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.

Obedient people never trust in themselves.

My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent, renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - good to themselves and the country at large

How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.

True listening is obedient listening. To listen to God is to obey Him.

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

Blessing come to you when you are obedient to God’s commands.

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

I believe a calm dog is a happy, obedient dog that won't get into trouble.

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

I am extremely square and obedient in nature!

He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth.

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

Listen to your parents. Be obedient to them whether you agree with them or not. They love you more than anyone else and have your best interests at heart.

Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.

Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

I know of nothing that I feel is of so great value in life as to be obedient to the counsel and advice of the Lord, and of His servants in this our day.

The Church desperately needs people of joy and zeal. Show me a church that is consistently obedient to this single command, and I will show you a church that is turning its world upside down.

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The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform utterly obedient to a mystery.

God leads His people whether they are obedient or rebellious, but His leading is far more pleasant when they obey.