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Quotes About Obedience

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
~ Baruch Spinoza
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
It's not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters.
~ Johnny Hunt
The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.
~ R. C. Sproul
The entire religion revolves around acknowledging the truth and then acting upon it.
~ Ibn Taymiyyah
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
~ Albert Barnes
Sincere love is not as a result of emotional surges - it's a result of obedience to the Truth.
~ Alistair Begg
When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do.
~ Henrietta Mears
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
~ C.P. Snow
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
ghost of)ACHILLES: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to make a woman bow herself to me. If not the fear of her own death, then fear for someone else, a husband or a child. How can I bend this woman to my will? (ghost of)POLYXENA: I think I will not bend. IPHIGENIA: You see, it's as we've tried to tell you, Great Achilles. Women are no good to you dead.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way.
~ Sherri Browning Erwin
Stay from underfoot and don't get into any trouble. You hear me?" "Yes, ma'am, I hear you." Due to past experience, she may not have completely believed me. When
~ Sidney Poitier
Moriré? —Necesariamente, no —respondía Magush—. Puedes vivir sin un destino —Pero hasta los perros tienen destino —protesté yo. —Los perros no pueden evitarlo: son obedientes.
~ Silvina Ocampo
Worship Me Like the Goddess I Am or There Will Be Some Serious Smiting." Jubilee
~ Simon R. Green
This is perhaps the most chilling moment in Mark's account. The crowd is asked a simple question, which it refuses to answer, offering only a call for violence. The moment might stand as a warning about all those times when fear, anger, prejudice, blind obedience or blood-lust blank out reason and justice.
~ Simon Webb
Living in the Spirit means a daily commitment to please Christ and not to please self.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result."
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson (1948- )
Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you.
~ Sinclair Ferguson
Learning is following
~ sindiswa matyobeni
Your gift is in the place of your obedience.
~ sindiswa matyobeni
Central to the stories in which people featured, was the bond of love with the concomitants: duty, obedience, responsibility, honor, and orderliness; always orderliness. Like the seasons of the year, life was depicted full of cause and effect, predictability and order; connectedness and oneness.
~ Sindiwe Magona
This hath not offended the king.
~ Sir Thomas More