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Quotes About Disobedience

At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
~ John Stott
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Yes, Darkstripe," Firepaw mewed, dipping his head submissively. He turned and muttered "Dirtstripe!" under his breath
~ Erin Hunter
LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE
~ Ernesto Cardenal
Not that the study is not important. A Jewish rabbi I once studies with would often say, 'For us Jews studying the bible is more important than obeying it because if you don't understand it rightly you will obey it wrongly and your obedience will be disobedience. This is also true.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
But refusing immunity as a form of civil disobedience bears an unsettling resemblance to the very structure the Occupy movement seeks to disrupt- a privileged 1 percent are sheltered from risk while they draw resources from the other 99 percent.
~ Eula Biss
For immediately in the beginning, after his original life of blessedness, the first man despised the command of God, and fell into this mortal and perishable state, and exchanged his former divinely inspired luxury for this curse-laden earth. His descendants having filled our earth, showed themselves much worse, with the exception of one here and there, and entered upon a certain brutal and insupportable mode of life.
~ Eusebius of Caesarea
I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.
~ Denis Leary
Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.
~ Bernard Bailyn
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
~ Oriana Fallaci
While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water.
~ John Woolman
It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I see you are still determined to not listen to me about not venturing abroad after lights-out.' She sat down across from him at the worktable. 'I never listen to you when I know enough to make up my own mind.
~ Sherry Thomas
What happens when I break one of your fuckin' rules?
~ Simone Elkeles
You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it.
~ Pelle Almqvist
God doesn't get angry because he doesn't get his way. He gets angry because disobedience always results in self-destruction. What kind of father sits by and watches his child hurt himself?
~ Max Lucado
The thing was, Zero liked breaking things. He saw no reason why the world should be allowed to stay hole.
~ Meg Gardiner
Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
Sometimes the rues don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
~ Joseph Smith Jr.
I very specifically told you to stay away from Ned Blydon." "I chose not to follow your advice. Ned is a very nice person. Handsome, personable—a perfect escort." "That is precisely why I wanted you to keep him at arm's length.
~ Julia Quinn
When we think of the enormous love we pump into our children's lives and then the sassy, disobedient, unappreciative behavior we receive in return, we can get pretty burned out on the whole process.
~ Foster W. Cline
Tout est permis, personne ne vient t'engueuler si tu fous le bordel. Le système a atteint son but : même la désobéissance est devenue une forme d'obéissance.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Just between you and me,' Mosca whispered, 'radicalism is all about walkin' on the grass.
~ Frances Hardinge