Quotes About Obedience

We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.

Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are right and just in their actions. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son, Isaac, because he believed that God had commanded it. To kill your son is unthinkable. A crime. But if you are acting in the belief that your God, your supreme deity whom you must obey, has demanded it of you, is it still a crime?

Come on, Father. Stop me. Tell me to behave, to go to hell, something, anything.

Qwilleran said, "If I had a dog, it would be a German shepherd.

When Can A Wife Disobey? When a husband asks his wife to do something directly contrary to Scripture.

Dratted women," the colonel muttered, tossing down his napkin and bolting out of his chair. "They don't know how to listen. They don't know how to obey. If the army were made up of them, we'd all be British subjects." Caleb

Power was always with the others, with the death-dealers and those who had obediently evolved the tunnel vision it takes to organize atrocity. The room was already iced in nuclear winter.

any henchman who thinks himself the equal of his superior is dangerous.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. (James 1:22) In

hesitancy, fear, or anger all that has been entrusted to us. God

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.

Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.

An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be ours every hour of every day, no matter where we are in the path of obedience.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to do it unless there had been some good in it.

I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.