Quotes About Obedience

It's a time for us to take counsel from God rather than give him counsel about all the things we think he ought to be doing.

I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will. ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you.

Oh, I dasn't, Mars Tom. Ole missis she'd take an' tar de head off'n me. 'Deed she would.

We ordered him peremptorily to sit down with us.

To this end it furnishes them an abundance of Catholic priests to teach them to be docile and obedient, and to be diligent in acquiring ignorance about things here below, and knowledge about the kingdom of heaven

but good-hearted and companionable, obedient to their parents and the priest; and as they grew up they became properly stocked with narrowness and prejudices got at second hand from their elders, and adopted without reserve; and without examination also—which goes without saying. Their religion was inherited, their politics the same. John Huss and his sort might find fault with

When it came down to it, one of them called the shots. The other did what he was told. The question is, what if the other is a lot more than one?

AN OBSERVATION*** A pair of train guards. A pair of grave diggers. When it came down to it, one of them called the shots. The other did what he was told. The question is, what if the 'other' is a lot more than one?

A pair of train guards. A pair of grave diggers. When it came down to it, one of them called the shots. The other did what he was told. The question is, what if the other is a lot more than one?

When a woman with an iron fist tells you to get out there and clean spit off the door, you do it. Especially when the iron's hot.

Some of those soldiers were only boys. They had the Führer in their eyes.

When a woman with an iron fist tells you to get out there and clean spit off the door, you do it. Especially when the iron's hot.

Many New Testament verses call for obedience and subservience on the part of slaves (Colossians 3:22–25; Ephesians 6:5–9; I Peter 2:18–25; Titus 2:9–10; I Timothy 6:1–2), and people used the verses to justify human slavery.

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.

The end of life is not to be happy nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

Over and over again, the Scripture teaches that God's laws are for our good and our protection and that obedience brings blessing. But Satan places in our minds the idea that God's laws are burdensome, unreasonable, and unfair, and that if we obey Him, we will be miserable. He tempts us to question God's wisdom.

Wild" is what we are whenever we disregard God and rely instead on the world's advice, or on what seems right in our own eyes.

the police. Offer to assist them in every way. We shall wait here until your return.' The little man obeyed in a half-stupefied fashion, and we heard him stumbling

Dogs don't make mistakes.