Quotes About Obedience

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.

It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.

They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I've learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you're asked to do to the best of your ability.

My work is really simple. They say 'action,' I do my stuff; they say, 'cut!'

Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.'

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Beckett was the most thorough of playwrights. He tells you what to do and if you've any humility at all, you'll take his advice.

To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

So long as any large group of persons, anywhere on this earth, believe the ancient superstition that some Authority is responsible for their welfare, they will set up some image of that Authority and try to obey it. And the result will be poverty and war.

All Spanish intellectuals burst into one great song of joy and hope. Now Spain was clean. Now every Spaniard was wholly obedient to Church and King. Alone of all European countries, Spain was now one united mass of loyal men, believing and acting as one being. Every thinker and poet in Spain celebrated in book and song this glorious event, this blessed time, the dawn of Spain's Golden Age. It was the end of Spain.

The Old World belief is this: Individuals are cells in a greater organism. All men are naturally dependent, obedient, controlled by Authority. (Communists, Fascists and Nazis say this in a cliché, "The individual is nothing.") Government is Authority, controlling the masses and responsible for their welfare. Therefore, the stronger the Government, the better for the masses. Liberty

I'm here to do whatever Mademoiselle might desire me to do for her," Ayesha said, in her soft voice. "It will be my pleasure to please Mademoiselle in every way.

the Stalinist credo: "a respect for obedience, hierarchy and institutionalized authority; a belief in reason, optimism and progress; recognition of a possible transformation of nature, society, and human beings; and an acceptance of the necessity of violence.

A verdade parece terrivelmente aprisionadora porque ela requer que nos comprometamos, contra nossos próprios interesses pessoais, com os mandamentos de Deus e sua Palavra.

The saved man seeks to conform himself to the Word and will of God; the self-righteous man seeks to conform God and the world to his word and will. The

"What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade."To turn you out, to turn you out," the Color-Sergeant said.

If we can be strong enough to resist the stuff Allah has allowed, it makes it easier to resist the stuff that's forbidden.

Sit!' -Kagome (to InuYasha and he falls.)

He routinely sought God out (or God sought him), there was an encounter, and then Moses did what God told him to do. For Moses, leadership was that simple!

I'll follow, if you give the sign.

Doing something your not supposed to do can be just as harmful as not doing something you are supposed to do.