Quotes About Disobedience

Adam and Eve may have been the first atheists, since they rebelled against the one commandment of God.

Adam was too lazy and cautious. But Eve who came after him dared to go and get the forbidden fruit.

Those who tried to refuse or go against the Will of God, like Jonah, had to pay the price of disobedience.

the moment when the kingdom of God overcomes the kingdoms of the world. It is the moment when a great old door, locked and barred since our first disobedience, swings open suddenly to reveal not just the garden, opened once more to our delight, but the coming city, the garden city that God had always planned and is now inviting us to go through the door and build with him. The dark power that stood in the way of this kingdom vision has been defeated, overthrown, rendered null and void. Its

to a viewpoint that was contrary to God's word put Eve on a slippery slope that led to disobedience

We are not ruled by blind instinct like the beasts. Uniquely, we can listen to the commands of God, can understand them, yet can choose disobedience. It is this, and only this, which gives our obedience its value.

A volte penso che la mia vita sia una punizione per la mia inadeguatezza, e che l'inadeguatezza a sua volta sia una punizione. Ma penso: se Dio mi vuole punire, così sia. È un Suo diritto. Ma è mio diritto disobbedire

He has consigned all men to disobedience, that He may have mercy upon all." (Romans 11:32, RSV)

peaceful civil disobedience can work in oppressive societies that nevertheless allow protesters to protest.

Apparently I wasn't in the mood to listen to myself.

You may all go to pot.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. I have always looked on the silence of those who do not react or who indeed applaud as the real death of a woman or man.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

My questions arise whenever I cease to obey. When I do obey God, problems come, not between me and God, but as a means to keep my mind examining with amazement the revealed truth of God. But any problem that comes between God and myself is the result of disobedience. Any problem that comes while I obey God (and there will be many) increases my overjoyed delight, because I know that my Father knows and cares, and I can watch and anticipate how He will unravel my problems.

We don't consciously and deliberately disobey God—we simply don't listen to Him. God has given His commands to us, but we pay no attention to them—not because of willful disobedience, but because we do not truly love and respect Him.

My pleasure in 'hell-raising' in class is my pleasure in chaos.

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

We're breaking a Seminole rule already.

Adam and Eve weren't just after God's forbidden fruit; they were after God's position.

I made a face at her and pulled at the neck of my dress. "Want a smoke?

When unjust laws are duly weighed, The king, too, may be disobeyed. They owed their true prince everything.

Sin was a result of Satan's rebellion in Heaven. Satan then influenced man to disobey God. Heaven and Earth would need blood to restore the bridge between God and man.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ëYou must not eat from any tree in the garden?í”

The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,