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Quotes About Obey

Il y eut un silence et il dit : - J'ai cru bien faire, Herr Unteroffizier. - Il ne faut pas croire, Bürkel. Il faut obéir.
~ Robert Merle
And nature must obey necessity.
~ William Shakespeare
According to the code of dharma, women had only one duty: obey the father when unmarried, the husband when married and the son when widowed. For men, duty was determined by varna, station in society, and ashrama, the stage in life.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
I obey the Commandments, the sensible ones. Where they dont know what theyre talking about I ignore them. I keep thinking about the story of the two old women in church listening to the priest discoursing on the dynamics of the married state. At the end of the sermon one turns to the other and says, I wish I knew as little about it as he does.
~ Donald Barthelme
Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with.
~ Dana Gould
Yet, I acknowledge it often seems more difficult to trust God than to obey Him.
~ Jerry Bridges
There was nothing to it, gentlemen. All a man need ever do is obey.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Jones... I just don't understand. "Yes, I know that you don't," Jones replied, "but it's an odd thing you've been unable to grasp... See I'm not requiring you to understand. I am simply urging you to obey. For it is only when you obey that, eventually, you begin to understand
~ Andy Andrews
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'
~ Tommy Chong
It is a fundamental principle of democracy that citizens obey the law or incur whatever penalty applies to its breaking.
~ Ann Widdecombe
The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.
~ Charles Stanley
Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it's direction you get in His Word or something He's specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.
~ Joyce Meyer
Unless I'm wrongI but obeyThe urge of a song:I'm—bound—away!And I may returnIf dissatisfiedWith what I learnFrom having died.
~ Robert Frost
It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Bacon says that to conquer nature, we must first obey it; but man, who has humbled himself toward space and matter, is still proud toward time.
~ Robert Grudin
The men were amazed and asked, "What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!" – Matthew 8:27 NIV
~ Robert J. Morgan
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. – John 15:9–10
~ Robert J. Morgan
This law is implanted in us by reason, and God himself obeys it. If human beings do not obey the natural law it is because reason does not entirely govern their behavior. The purpose of a legal is to provide an effective substitute for reason in the motives of unreasonable men. He added, however, that rights are nothing without the power which would enforce them, and therefore that power, not right, is the basic fact of politics." -Spinoza
~ Roger Scruton
suffer. If you don't do what we
~ Lee Child
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
~ Leon Trotsky
Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God's I'd rather you didn't lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.
~ Libba Bray
To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.
~ Sivananda
Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.
~ Ann M. Dibb