Quotes About Obedience

He liked to see men cowed and frightened, for that made them biddable, and Sergeant Hakeswill was always at his happiest when he was in control of unhappy men.

Battle assaults the senses, and that assault ferments fear, and obedience is the narrow thread that leads out of fear's chaos into survival.

Or was it a question of how the laws were actually interpreted and enforced at the time they committed their crimes, and that they were not applied to them? What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles.

The principle that we ought to obey God rather than man has been interpreted by Christians in two different ways. God's commands may be conveyed to the individual conscience either directly, or indirectly through the medium of the Church. No one except Henry VIII and Hegel has ever held, until our own day, that they could be conveyed through the medium of the State.

Only the guardians, in Plato's language, are to think; the rest are to obey, or to follow leaders like a herd of sheep. This doctrine, often unconsciously, has survived the introduction of political democracy, and has radically vitiated all national systems of education.

The principle that we ought to obey God rather than man has been interpreted by Christians in two different ways. God's commands may be conveyed to the individual conscience either directly, or indirectly through the medium of the Church.

Authoritative education, we may add, produces the slave type as well as the despotic type, since it leads to the feeling that the only possible relation between two human beings who cooperate is that in which one issues orders and the other obeys them.

All submissiveness is rooted in fear, whether the leader to whom we submit be human or divine.

You and I need to obey God. When we do, the consequences of our obedience become God's problem and not ours.

If you'll follow Christ's commands, you'll follow Christ straight to your calling and you'll have developed the strength, grit, and stability along the way to handle it.

My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples. John 15:8

He fell facedown and prayed, "My Father! If it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will." Matthew 26:39

We live sacrificially when we're outside the will of God, giving up all sorts of things that were meant to be ours in Christ. We want to claim those things back, but in the process we're going to be putting a few other things on the altar.

If the Word of God is about anything at all, it is about God's will rather than ours. Our liberty is paradoxically discovered through the will of God rather than our own.

He said to them, "If anyone wants to be My follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me." Mark 8:34

Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy. " And Joshua did so. Joshua 5:15

These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the LORD'S commands and obey them. Numbers 15:39

Sometimes God demands radical measures when He wants to bring about radical results.

Therefore, observe the words of this covenant and follow them, so that you will succeed in everything you do. Deuteronomy 29:9

You are to labor six days and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Exodus 20:9–10

God doesn't work for us; we work for God.

The message is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may follow it. Deuteronomy 30:14

Do you not know that if you offer yourself to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey? Romans 6:16