Quotes About Obedience

Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.

I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave

You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.

If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him.

I'd learned that you can't wear a crown unless you bear a cross - that if our Savior had learned obedience through suffering, we should expect the same.

But the story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions—and there's nothing freeing about that.

Competence beats obedience.

You have very little right to break the rules, until you have mastered them.

It's *AS IF* there is a powerful figure in the sky, who sees all, and is judging you. Giving up something you value seems to make him happy--and you want to make him happy, because all hell breaks loose if you don't. So, practice sacrificing, and sharing, until you become expert at it, and things will go well for you.

respect for the rules, except when following those rules means disregarding or ignoring or remaining blind to an even higher moral principle

Without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions - and there's nothing freeing about that.

the story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions—and there's nothing freeing about that.

my first reaction to a command might just be that nobody, not even God, tells me what to do, even if it's good for me. But the story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions—and there's nothing freeing about that.

People don't clamour for rules, even in the Bible

Si tu marido quiere dormir, no le presiones ni estimules la intimidad. Si es él quien te pide la unión, accede humildemente teniendo en cuenta que su satisfacción es más importante que la de la mujer. Si las prácticas sexuales que te demanda son inusuales, sé obediente y no te quejes. En el momento culminante, un pequeño gemido por tu parte es suficiente para indicar cualquier goce que hayas podido experimentar».

No eran valientes porque si triunfaban se transformarían en el germen del ejército emancipador de América, ni porque estaban dispuestos a darlo todo por la patria nueva. Eran valientes, en ese debut sangriento, porque temían más a su jefe que a Dios, y porque al no poder retroceder hasta el más cobarde es un hombre audaz.

Als er den letzten Schluck getrunken hatte, ging er in sein Kabinett zurück und ließ sich von dem Diener die Schildkröte nachtragen, die sich partout nicht bewegen wollte

La libertad se aprende obedeciendo primero, porque esta obediencia permite construir las herramientas psicológicas de la libertad.

Pero en los momentos critícos de mi vida siempre he obrado contra mi voluntad obedeciendo á distintos fines y á poderosas dusas.

Cómo harán los que escriben? ¿Cómo lograrán que sus palabras los obedezcan? Las mías van por donde quieren, por donde pueden.

And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.

The homeliest service that we do in an honest calling, though it be but to plough or dig, if done in obedience and conscience of God's commandment, is crowned with an ample reward; whereas the best works for their kind, preaching, praying, offering evangelical sacrifices, if without respect of God's injunction and glory, are loaded with curses. God loveth adverbs; and careth not how good, but how well.