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Quotes About Obedience

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
~ William Barclay
Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The man or woman who lives worthily now is in a state of salvation.
~ Brigham Young
It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed
~ Charles Spurgeon
No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.
~ Clovis Chappell
Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When a rules man gives you a ruling, that's it. Amen.
~ Gary Player
As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.
~ Gelett Burgess
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]
~ George Herbert
Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.
~ George Herbert
It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.
~ George MacDonald
By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man is at his tallest when he bows.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.
~ H. G. Wells
Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.
~ Lysander Spooner
How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
~ Plato
One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.
~ Plutarch
It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name
~ Orson Pratt