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Quotes About Obedience

Stick close to your desks and never go to sea,And you all may be Rulers of the Queen's Navee!
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
~ Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
Obediance, when it flows out of genuine love for Jesus Christ, is never wasted and never regretted.
~ Leslie Ludy
Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
~ J. G. Holland
The law never tells you to pray.
~ Joseph Prince
Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
~ Anthony de Mello
Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.
~ Timothy Keller
Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.
~ Martyn
We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Listen to your parents. Be obedient to them whether you agree with them or not. They love you more than anyone else and have your best interests at heart.
~ James E. Faust
Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.
~ Meister Eckhart
Forgiveness is manifested mercy; it is live in action - not love based on a feeling, but love based on a decision, an intentional choice to obey God.
~ Joyce Meyer
Our Heavenly Father does bless us when we show our love for Him in all things.
~ Margaret D. Nadauld
Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
~ Philip Yancey
If ye love me keep my commandments
~ Robert D. Hales
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.
~ Peter Kreeft
We always get into trouble when we doubt God's love, because when we don't trust him, we don't obey him.
~ Rick Warren
In the military, we have always had a healthy disrespect for democracy.
~ Max Barry
North Koreans were indoctrinated from birth to believe that their lives were meaningless, that they existed only to serve the State, the Revolution, and the Great Leader.
~ Max Brooks
From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say "They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine." The freedom, God help us, to say "I was only following orders.
~ Max Brooks
The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. [ 1 John 2:17 MSG
~ Max Lucado