Quotes About Obedience

Many people think… that the Christian commandments (for instance, loving your neighbor as yourself) are purposely made too strict—rather like the clock being put half an hour fast to prevent them getting up much too late in the morning.

As long as you feed me, sir," Freddy said, "I'll follow you anywhere.

I was a zombie then—like all Muslims—I was hypnotized, pointed in a certain direction and told to march.

An example of this is if he tells you "get in the car." You never go to a secondary location– ever.

He who eats my bread does my will.

The freedom to do only what God wants, and accept whatever God sends us.

lowly; but a man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examination, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself, as the emperor says he should not, about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not do that which he thinks and says and does.

1. Nature is pliable, obedient. And the logos that governs it has no reason to do evil. It knows no evil, does none, and causes harm to nothing. It dictates all beginnings and all endings.

Doth then any of them forsake their former false opinions that I should think they profit? For without a change of opinions, alas! what is all that ostentation, but mere wretchedness of slavish minds, that groan privately, and yet would make a show of obedience to reason, and truth?

As we see in Josephus, the phrase means, basically, "Give up your agendas and trust me for mine.

We are all servants of the laws in order to be free

There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.

It's foolish to joke with those who have absolute control over you. They don't like it; they think you don't appreciate the full extent of their power.

How soon before there are ancient texts they feel they have to obey but have forgotten how to interpret?

Es verdad que, a veces, Dios nos hace promesas que nos ayudan a pasar los tiempos difíciles. Pero parece que no revela Su voluntad a los curiosos, sólo a aquellos que ya sabe que obedecerán. Y a los que obedecen no es necesario revelarles nada. Os puedo prometer una cosa: este viaje es una gran aventura. La vida con Dios nunca es aburrida.

the road to success is littered with mistakes, it matters more to build trust and encourage ambition than to reward obedience. At

the way small Mrs. Tarleton bullied her grown sons and laid her riding crop on their backs if the occasion seemed to warrant it.

She spoke in the soft slurring voice of the coastal Georgian, liquid of vowels, kind to consonants and with the barest trace of French accent. It was a voice never raised in command to a servant or reproof to a child but a voice that was obeyed instantly at Tara, where her husband's blustering and roaring were quietly disregarded.

Los modales le habían sido impuestos por las amables amonestaciones y la severa disciplina de su madre;

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.

If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.

Don't ever interrupt me again. And next time you do, show me the proper respect.