Quotes About Obedience

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.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net as anything that entices or prevents us from following the call of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.

What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.

When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

It's an Islamic principle that you must follow the law of the land where you reside.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

The prisoner never loves his warden, even if he obeys the rules from time to time.

The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.

One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.

I've always taken direction pretty well.

I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.

I often think about Christ having all power, but He abdicated the power to live a sacrificial life for His children. In His own words he told his disciples that His meat was to do the will of the Father.