Quotes About Obedience

is creating problems for bureaucrats who suffer from malignant obedience.

So many problems occur when people fail to be obedient when they are supposed to be obedient, and fail to be creative when they are supposed to be creative. The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours. It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

A person will walk through a hundred doors to carry out the whims of the dead, not realizing he is burying himself away from the others.

Quite early on I had discovered the overlooked space open to those of us with a silent life. I didn't argue with the policeman who said I couldn't cycle over a certain bridge or through a specific gate in the fort—I just stood there, still, until I was invisible, and then I went through. Like a cricket. Like a hidden cup of water.

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

I do what the directors want me to do with all sincerity and devotion. And ultimately my sincerity pays.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

After you've watched your dad beat the crap out of Charlie King or some other bad guy in about forty movies, you pretty much always said, 'Yes, sir,' and meant it.

My family's big on discipline, respect, manners, make sure that we respect our elders. So that's kind of what the military is. You have to say, 'Yes sir,' 'No ma'am,' 'Yes ma'am.' All that stuff. That's kind of the mold my dad has for my brothers and I.

Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.

My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the director. I'm someone who doesn't argue. I hit my marks and say the lines.

Keeping the commandments of God is not a difficult burden when we do it out of love of him who has so graciously blessed us.

One should be prepared to surrender completely, absolutely to the will of God. Whatever He does is for our good.

Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good.

One heart cannot serve two masters.

The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

Faithfulness to God requires your obedience, even when it's difficult.

Just fear me and love me...and do as I say...and I will be your slave.

By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

If God loves us enough to send us Prophets, then we need to love Him enough to follow them.

Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

I'm not strong-willed actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.