Quotes About Obedience

Advance," he said softly. Then, as the bugler beside him didn't hear the words, he turned, his face expressionless, and whipped the man across the face with his leather-covered steel riding crop.

Klein, karakterloos kwezeltje dat je bent,' zei ze op strenge toon. 'Kom uit je bed en trek je schoenen aan, anders snij ik je oren van je kop.

We're not big on that sort of thing. We wait for our leader to point to an enemy and say, 'Go whack him.

I most certainly am not! I wouldn't want a big lump like him riding me. She moved closer to Bumper and whispered, 'Just go along with it, will you? And how do you know my dad is a big lump?' He's a knight. They're all big lumps. But all right, hoist her up.

What . . . do I have to do exactly?" "If anyone annoys me, you squash him," Hal told him and Ingvar nodded happily.

Sire—I have received an order, under your majesty's seal, to put to death all the protestants in my province. I have too much respect for your majesty, not to believe the letter a forgery; but if (which God forbid) the order should be genuine, I have too much respect for your majesty to obey it.

Everything in Scripture has the force of law. What it teaches we are to believe; what it commands, we are to do. We should take its wisdom to heart, imitate its heroes, laugh at its jokes, trust its promises, and sing its songs.

The life of the Christian without the indwelling power of the Spirit in the heart is a weariness to the flesh. It is an obedience to commandments and an endeavor to walk according to a pattern which you have not power to follow.

The use of anointing oil is a matter of obedience. It is a symbol of the Spirit of God, and that is all it is. So we place upon the individual the anointing oil in order that we fulfill the symbol of the Spirit of God as the Healer, and that is all.

in acting according to the will of God revealed in his word, and in the whole worship of him, both internal and external: and this is to be done "with fear", not with fear of man, nor with servile fear of God, but with a godly and filial fear, with a reverential affection for him, and in a way agreeable to his mind and will; with reverence and awe of him, without levity, carelessness, and negligence;

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

Human schemes can never carry out the plans of God.

A man may well bring a horse to the water,But he cannot make him drink without he will.

A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.

When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More often it refers to a religion accepted by the large majority, which assures them that God is not so much a Lord who demands obedience as a handyman who is available whenever we need help.

the pope was God's representative here on Earth—and there the matter ended. Emperors might enjoy the privilege of protecting and defending the Church; they had no right to interfere in its affairs. The pope's authority was absolute; synods were summoned merely to carry out his orders; bishops, archbishops, and even patriarchs were bound to him in loyalty and obedience.

Kalau anda bertekad untuk tidak mau termangu-mangu dan ragu-ragu lagi saat suara hati anda menyuruh anda untuk bertindak, artinya anda sudah menerima kunci restu.

Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

All that the Lord thy God commands thee to do, that do thou to the Lord thy God: add nothing to it, diminish nothing from it.' By this rule, think I, the Kirk of Christ will measure God's religion, and not by that which seems good in their own eyes.

They drum that into you: discipline trumps courage. In a fight, the people who win are the ones who do what they're told. It's not like it is in films. Don't be brave, just do what you're told.

Christianity is a matter of willing God's will and through Christ become one with it.

But, by the law of faith, faith is allowed to supply the defect of full obedience: and so the believers are admitted to life and immortality, as if they were righteous.

the law of the land, which is not to be violated.

To one that, thus unbiassed, reads the scriptures, what Adam fell from (is visible) was the state of perfect obedience, which is called justice in the New Testament; though the word, which in the original signifies justice, be translated righteousness: and by this fall he lost paradise, wherein was tranquillity and the tree of life; i. e. he lost bliss and immortality.