Quotes About Obedience

He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

And Enoch walked with God.

My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.

Were his lord but worthy, God, how fine a vassal.

But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

Not my will, but thine, be done.

I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth.

Bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it.

Where no law is, there is no transgression.

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

I am the Lord thy God.

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter.

Obedience is only practiced by the cowardly.

Il ne faut pas être plus royaliste que le roi [One must not be more royalist than the king].

Ruat coelum, fiat voluntas tua [Though heaven should fall, let thy will be done].

Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

To be properly wicked, you do not have to break the Law. Just observe it to the letter.

The upperclassman hands over a third pail. "Throw it," commands Bastian. The night steams, the stars burn, the prisoner sways, the boys watch, the commandant tilts his head. Frederick pours the water onto the ground. "I will not.

We serve the Reich, Pfennig. It does not serve us.

and how could Neumann Two not have known, but of course he didn't, because that is how things are with Neumann Two, with everybody in this unit, in this army, in this world, they do as they're told, they get scared, they move about with only themselves in mind. Name me someone who does not.

Werner is beginning to see, approaching his sixteenth birthday, that what the führer really requires is boys. Great rows of them walking to the conveyor belt to climb on.