Quotes About Obedience

If ministers forget their ruler and establish relationships with foreign powers in order to advance the interests of their confederates, there will be scant reason for subordinates to obey their superiors.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.

Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

Getting a bunch of horses to just stand there all day and do nothing is much harder than getting them to run around.

If we'd had a Svengali manager and done what we would have been told, maybe we would have had a bigger, more hugely successful career.

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

Noelle forced the crowd to part for

scruff of the neck and seat of the pants, and ran him out the door to the accompaniment of appropriate old-time remarks about seedy little army types who failed to acknowledge the natural superiority of their overlords, the Marines.

When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

In un mondo folle, ubbidire sembra sempre la soluzione più semplice.

había seguido mis instrucciones al pie de la letra.

Go get wood, Nuckal, grumbled the skeleton. 'Pick up those rocks, Nuckal.' 'Stop eating all the donuts, Nuckal.' Orders, orders, orders, that's all I ever hear.

In front of the officers, in front of Captain Phasma especially, they always used their appropriate designations

A real stormtrooper is the extension of the First Order, of Supreme Leader Snoke's will, nothing less.

This means that to be considered a child of the Father in heaven by Jesus, one had to be willing to break the OT commands to retaliate

When New Testament authors stress that salvation is not arrived at by works, as first-century Jews, these authors are referring to works of the law. They are saying that God's righteousness does not come by external obedience to the law, as some Jews of their day supposed.

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told!

Enough obedience will let people do just about anything to other people', I said. 'I like that answer,' Idriss said. Praise from the wise is the sweetest wine. I felt the warmth of it inside. 'Obedience is the assassin of conscience,' Idriss said softly, 'and that is why every lasting institution demands it.

So, that's it,' he concluded. 'The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told.

The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told!