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Quotes About Obey

I may command where I adore.
~ William Shakespeare
When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves.
~ xenophon ii
The church is not a political society and will never be one, but its mission is to point to one peculiar and ultimate political society: a kingdom of citizens who freely obey and follow their King, who live in a city of which their Lord is the light.
~ David T. Koyzis
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~ David Wong
The duty of a Christian is to obey Jesus Christ.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The only spiritual soul can obey's the spiritual law.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The authority is God's. Although mediated through various styles, the fundamental authority of God in counseling must be evident in all biblical counseling. Any personality traits that interfere with, rather than mediate the message must be altered. That is why the Lord changed the apostle Peter from a weak, vacillating, fearful disciple to the bold fearless disciple who told the authorities, "We must obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29).
~ Jay E. Adams
No man is free to ignore God's standards. No one has the right to choose not to serve God, for God has made man to serve him and has-commanded "all men everywhere to repent" (Acts 17:30). He has called them to turn from idols to the true and living God, to serve him and to wait for his Son from heaven. Not all men, however, obey that command. Sin has cosmic dimensions.
~ Jay E. Adams
The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we have to say: The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.'" Then
~ Jean Hegland
Henry Ford was caught speeding while driving in Michigan, and denounced speeding laws entirely. He argued that it was impossible to drive and constantly observe and obey speed limits.
~ Jeff Guinn
Sometimes when we are called to obey, the fear does not subside and we are expected to move against the fear. One must choose to do it afraid.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Is it more important to understand than to obey? Is it more important to me to know than to believe?
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish. I thought later how simply and quickly they had introduced that concept to me, as easily as breaking a little finger. For some reason they had decided not to beat me.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
It was the beginning of that long bifurcation that became my life: Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
Man for the field and woman for the hearth:Man for the sword and for the needle she:Man with the head and woman with the heart:Man to command and woman to obey;All else confusion.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
There are people who worship God to gain His Favors, this is the worship of traders; while there are some who worship Him to keep themselves free from His Wrath, this is the worship of slaves; a few who obey Him out' of their sense of gratitude and obligations, this is the worship of free and noble men.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
They obey older laws.
~ Alison Croggon
Il y a toujours moyen d'obéir. C'est ce que les cerveaux occidentaux devraient comprendre.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.
~ Robert Kennedy
If you don't make weight, you're breaching a contract, straight up.
~ Robert Whittaker
If that's too mythical a tone consider those who conform and know something's wrong and need a zany few who won't obey.
~ Richard Hugo
Begin now to obey Him in every way you can. Start right where you are, in the midst of all the tasks that press in upon you. Do not wait for some future time when you will have more time or be more perfect in knowledge.
~ Richard J. Foster
Where Christ's laws are written in the heart, there all other good laws are best obeyed. None despise man's law but those that despise Christ's first.
~ Richard Sibbes