Quotes About Obedience

Kids have this resistance to listening to adults and authority, period.

I got a lot of respect for my OGs, so when they ask me to do something, I do it.

A law is a law, and it has to be respected.

I believe young people need rules. They will respond to discipline.

In the military, the reason you take the right path is they eliminate other choices. I needed that. They set me straight.

I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'

The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.

I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

I never ask for a script when it comes to Subhash Ghai. I just do whatever he asks me to.

Most laws that we make to protect people from guns are usually ignored by the criminals and obeyed by the law-abiding people. And so I think that if you had better data, there'd be no one more in favor of it than law abiding gun owners because they don't want to be smeared and lumped in with the criminals who use guns.

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

I think having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, within certain parameters, obviously.

The promise of the new covenant is not that we're liberated from God's word, but that we're liberated to keep it.

They want you to like it," Father says. "This way they can know where you are at all times.

This vision fundamentally challenges what Peter holds to be the command of God and opens up a difficult dilemma: in order to obey the command of God he must disobey the command of God.

God's Word cannot be heard without being heeded; it cannot be received without being incarnated. Indeed, it is only in being incarnated that one can say that it has been received.

We make choices to trust God, to wait on God, to obey God, to stick with God, to remain faithful when everything in us wants to quit and run.

The core spiritual issue in stopping revolves around trust. Will God take care of us and our concerns if we obey him by stopping to keep the Sabbath?

God promises if you and I will do life his way (even though it feels unnatural and hard to us initially), then our lives will be beautiful.

Our most natural prayer is "My Father in heaven, hallowed be my name, may my kingdom come, may my will be done on earth." We're afraid of God's will being done because we can't control what he will do, when he will do it, how he will do it, and what the outcome might be.

You Can't Do God's Work Your Way without Paying a Steep Price

As the activity culture of modernity constitutes itself against heteronomy, however, it will seek and find methods to place the commanding authority inside the hearer of the command themselves, so that they seem only to be obeying their inner voice when they submit. In this way, the fact of 'subjectivity' is demanded, created and fulfilled. What is meant, then, is the individual's co-determination of the authority that can give them commands.

You can do what's right, or you can do what you are told.

He who loves me, let him follow me.