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Quotes About Disobedience

We often think of authority as a response to disobedience: a child acts up, so a teacher cracks down. Stella's classroom, however, suggests something quite different: disobedience can also be a response to authority. If the teacher doesn't do her job properly, then the child will become disobedient. "With
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Rebellion is a negative form of living.
~ Anais Nin
On earth Christ was a learner in the school of obedience; in heaven He teaches it to His disciples here on earth. In a world where disobedience reigns unto death, the restoration of obedience is in Christ's hands. As in His own life, so in us, He has undertaken to maintain it. He teaches and works it in us.
~ Andrew Murray
You've flaunted my authority, coddled that boy, and let him do as he pleases.
~ Sam Torode
paraded around town in an elephant cage, an elephant who repeatedly pulled her stake and stole the lemonade
~ Sara Gruen
It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.
~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The definition of sin is clear: disobedience against the laws of God. But the age is so dark in ignorance that people defiantly deny that there is even such a thing as sin. Their defiant disobedience is itself the essence of sin.
~ Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
Compulsory veneration is bound to come out as rebellion, hatred, and blasphemy.
~ Saul Bellow
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. 2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, 4treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people. 6For among them
~ Scott Hahn
That so all vapours of all disobedience to thee, being subdued under my feet, I may, in the power and triumph of thy Son, tread victoriously upon my grave, and trample upon the lion and dragon [182] that lie under it to devour me.
~ John Donne
Obedience is an act of faith disobedience is the result of unbelief.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
Lila appeared in my life in first grade and immediately impressed me because she was very bad.
~ Elena Ferrante
Fu in quell'occasione che mi convinsi che niente potesse fermarla, e che anzi ogni sua disobbedienza avesse sbocchi che per la meraviglia toglievano il fiato.
~ Elena Ferrante
Writing requires maximum ambition, maximum audacity, and programmatic disobedience.
~ Elena Ferrante
I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.
~ Brandon Lee
Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
St. Augustine also states that, in a sense, shame is related to disobedience. Positively, this would mean that when there is perfect obedience to God, there is no shame. This confirms somewhat the spiritual truth that Catholic educators have observed, namely, that as obedience to the law of Christ increases, concupiscence or the passions actually diminish.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.
~ Margaret Atwood
Aunt Vidala said that best friends led to whispering and plotting and keeping secrets, and plotting and secrets led to disobedience to God, and disobedience led to rebellion, and girls who were rebellious became women who were rebellious, and a rebellious woman was even worse than a rebellious man because rebellious men became traitors, but rebellious women became adulteresses.
~ Margaret Atwood
best friends led to whispering and plotting and keeping secrets, and plotting and secrets led to disobedience to God, and disobedience led to rebellion, and girls who were rebellious became women who were rebellious, and a rebellious woman was even worse than a rebellious man because rebellious men became traitors, but rebellious women became adulteresses.
~ Margaret Atwood
All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.
~ Neil Gaiman
If you come to bring a swift justice to me for my disobedience, assure me please that you will do your utmost to destroy a spirit which has been my companion since I was a child. This creature, a duplicate of me who has grown with me since before I can remember, now poses a danger to humans as well as myself.
~ Anne Rice
That incorrigible Quinn. He went deep into Sugar Devil Swamp, though everybody told him not to; he went to that accursed island Hermitage, and one night he just didn't come back.
~ Anne Rice
The disobedient are prospering now only in a very limited earthly economy. God, however, calls us to live in a much higher economy—that of heaven.
~ Shawn Bolz