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Quotes About Obey

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
~ Aristotle
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
It seems to her [Saint Catherine of Siena] that the devil has this world in his power, not by his own will, for he is powerless, but through our help because we obey him. The evil aroma rising from the ... wars which are waged by Christians against Christians, are the same as war against God. ... Peace, peace, for the sake of the love of the crucified Christ, and not war; that is the only solution.
~ Sigrid Undset
To run, to work, the law commands, The gospel gives me feet and hands. The one requires that I obey, The other does the power convey.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
I need one food: I must not violate Elektra
~ Sophocles
It is easier to be a mere performer and not to make serious decisions, to live with an assistance of someone else's mind and obey someone else's command when you are a person of victim mentality
~ Sunday Adelaja
Go, send, or disobey.
~ John Piper
Not all question asking is good. It depends on the attitude. Is there a submission to the Word of God and a readiness to obey God when we understand what he wants of us? Is there a willingness to embrace the mysteries of God if something is plain but over our head?
~ John Piper
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.
~ John Ruskin
Follow them," said Goewin, "and listen." So he did.
~ Elizabeth Wein
It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God's law. They must cease to rely upon their own efforts for salvation, they must trust wholly in the merits of the promised Saviour, if they would be accepted of God.
~ Ellen G. White
Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey
~ Ellen G. White
While God has given ample evidence for faith, He will never remove all excuse for unbelief. All who look for hooks to hang their doubts upon will find them. And those who refuse to accept and obey God's word until every objection has been removed, and there is no longer an opportunity for doubt, will never come to the light.—The Great Controversy, p. 527.
~ Ellen G. White
Who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth?" (Galatians 3:1). They
~ Ellen G. White
Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.
~ Émile Durkheim
Who obeys, shines.
~ George MacDonald
How to be radiant Who obeys, shines.
~ George MacDonald
Any genre as it's called, I think can be quite reductive in terms of what a film is, because I think there is an eagerness to put in any film, in anybody's work, to give it a genre title and I think as a consequence of that, the film starts to obey the rules of the genre.
~ Steven Knight
We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Tolerance has to be shown by those who come to this country for a new way of life. If you are not prepared to become Australian and give this country your undivided loyalty, obey our laws, respect our culture and way of life, then I suggest you go back where you came from.
~ Pauline Hanson
This command, as Bonhoeffer routinely observes, is anchored in the cross that Jesus himself bore. This is why Bonhoeffer can also say, "Only those who there, in the cross of Jesus, find faith in the victory over evil can obey his command.
~ Scot McKnight
Provision of divine redemption in the face of spiritual need is the consistent message of Scripture and the chief means by which human hearts flood with love for God that is power to obey his commands
~ Scott M. Gibson
One who knows the Mississippi will promptly aver—not aloud, but to himself—that ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, cannot tame that lawless stream, cannot curb it or confine it, cannot say to it, Go here, or Go there, and make it obey; cannot save a shore which it has sentenced; cannot bar its path with an obstruction which it will not tear down, dance over, and laugh at.
~ Mark Twain
Always obey your superiors, if you have any.
~ Mark Twain