Quotes About Obedience

Christ's obedience has not rendered ours unnecessary: rather has it rendered ours acceptable.

Human responsibility is the necessary corollary of divine sovereignty.

If thou be righteous, what givest thou Him? Or what receiveth He of thine hand? thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man" (Job 35:7-8), but it certainly cannot affect God, who is all-blessed in Himself. "When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants" (Luk 17:10)—our obedience has profited God nothing.

When we fast, how long we fast, the nature of the fast and the spiritual objectives we have before us are all God's choice, to which the obedient disciple gladly responds.

God reminds His people that the acceptable fast is the one which He has chosen. Fasting, like prayer, must be God-initiated and God-ordained if it is to be effective.

In giving us the privilege of fasting as well as praying, God has added a powerful weapon to our spiritual armory. In her folly and ignorance, the church has largely looked upon it as obsolete. She has thrown it down in some dark corner to rust, and there it has lain forgotten for centuries. An hour of impending crisis for the church and the world demands its recovery!

Y así, en tales manos, España se convirtió en un páramo de luto y tristeza, empobrecida, enferma, miserable, dócil, asustada y gris, teniendo como único alivio los toros, el fútbol y la radio

No es mejor echarse en brazos de una naturaleza ciega, desprovista de sabiduría y objetivos, que temblar toda la vida esclavizados por una supuesta Inteligencia Todopoderosa, que ha dispuesto sus sublimes designios para que los pobres mortales tengan la libertad de desobedecerlos, y convertirse así en continuas víctimas de su cólera implacable?

Eran hombres cuyo valor tranquilo procedía de mentes sencillas: resignados ante el azar, fatalistas sobre la vida y la muerte, obedecían de modo natural sin que la imaginación les jugara malas pasadas. Eran guerreros natos. Soldados perfectos.

nunca fueron más disciplinados los tercios que cuando se amotinaban.

There are two people in the world whom you cannot refuse anything. Your mother. Your mother's mother. Period.

Mosiah 2:22 - "And behold, all that he requires of you is to keep his commandments;" - (My thoughts --->) "This one stuck out to me as like a, duh scripture. I just need to keep the commandments of the Lord. That's all. I just need to read my scriptures, ponder and pray. I just need to be an example and follow the Holy Ghost. I just need to be a Daughter of God. He's just asking that much from us.

if God has given us certain gifts, we are to use them for his service and glory.

You don't have a choice. My sisters will kill you if you don't obey me." "Then why are you protecting me?

Compreender que sonhos sem disciplina produzem pessoas frustradas; disciplina sem sonhos produz autômatos, que só obedecem a ordens.

The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

seconds, I reluctantly follow him outside.

In the first of these senses, neither Christ nor the Christian is supposed to be the world's servant. Jesus is obedient, not to the world but to the Father. He is the servant of God, not of men, and we too are called to be servants of God.

Every Islamic value I had been taught instructed me to put myself last. Life on earth is a test, and if you manage to put yourself last in this life, you are serving Allah; your place will be first in the Hereafter. The more deeply you submit your will, the more virtuous that makes you.

Respect for authority is a disease, no different from the Venusian Gook Rot.

What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.

Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they're older. People just don't realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack.

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.

When a governor asks you to come and serve... or a president, subsequently in my life - you do so.