Quotes About Obedience

often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?

Yes, dangerous: think a little, if you're capable of thought, and you'll see that it's safer to obey a law however stupid it may be than to act freely; because to act freely, unless you're as wicked as certain emperors, is to seek a just law; and if you make a mistake, you've taken the first step towards power, which is what destroys men.

The key to following God was to stay on the road and off the shoulders.

But he could not let his flesh win, because as Paul often said, they were slaves to Christ. And a slave does not question his master; he obeys. And what did Christ ask of him? Here, as always, to love.

He called you, He fashioned you, and He will use you. Obey the nudging of His Spirit

Yet the Law of Moses commanded me to respect and obey that tyrant, and Solomon promised a blessing for those who honored their parents.

Obedience without choice is servitude. Love without choice is not love.

No, no quiero… Pero soy una princesa. Y una princesa no debe tener en cuenta sus sentimientos. Una princesa se entrega, rendida, en manos de su rey. Soy una buena princesa, con sangre de siglos en las venas para obedecer y sonreír. A pesar de todo, lo he aprendido: una princesa no le da calabazas al emperador de Austria. Aunque le cueste la vida.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

Come on, hurry up," Marcia snapped impatiently at the spiral stairs. Taking her at her word, the stairs sped up to double daytime speed,

who was curled into a tight ball. And then past his master, Silas. Maxie felt uncomfortable going past Silas, because Silas was Top Dog and Maxie was Not Allowed in Front.

Whenever Papa said, 'Jump,' I was always the first one in the air.

I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.'

Whatever our Lord says, whatever our beloved Prophet says, we shall follow that path.

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

Whenever black folks speak candidly about the horrors of police brutality, the default reaction in the United States isn't to start disrupting and dismantling the system of prejudices that enables the abuse of black people, but to demand silence and, sometimes, outright obedience.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

I'm happy to play anywhere, I will play wherever I'm told to play.

I'm going to France, I'm going to Germany, and I'm going to go wherever God sends me and gives me the strength.

I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.

I'm a company man. I'll go wherever the UFC wants me to go.