Quotes About Obedience

Il signor Paolo Ferrari era in sala da pranzo che beve-va il tè. Nel vederlo io riconobbi Turati, che era venuto in via Pastrengo una volta. Ma siccome m'avevan detto che si chiamava Paolo Ferrari, credetti, per ubbidienza, che fosse insieme Turati e Ferrari; e di nuovo verità e menzogna si mescolarono in me.

The obedient student was taught not to challenge authority. The responsible student is prepared to question—and if need be, to challenge—anything.

What is needed and demanded today, in the age of the knowledge worker, is not robotic obedience but persons who can think.

Self-reliance and self-responsibility were seen as supremely appropriate in this new order of things, in contrast to the conformity and obedience more valued in earlier, tribal societies. Independence became an economically adaptive virtue.

When an enlisted man sees his commanding officer lose his head entirely…," Private Taylor wrote, "it would…demoralize anyone taught to breathe, almost, at the word of command.

Chain of command knows no age restrictions, he once told Connor. You could be six, but if you were my superior, I'd still do as I was told.

Have a mint," she said. "No thanks," Mitch told her. "I SAID, HAVE A MINT." And Mitch, like a weak mind manipulated by the Force, obeyed.

Fear, Ayn. Fear is the beloved father of respect.

Silence was all it took to turn servitude into superiority. The servant became the master, and the world became all about pleasing the Thunderhead.

WFor to put oneself above the law is a fundamental recipe for disaster.

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

for me obedience to another is the decay of self

Father of mine, I abandon myself to you, make of me that which is pleasing to you. Whatever you might do to me, I thank you.

Fully agreeing with Sir Richard Grenville's great axiom, that he who cannot obey cannot rule, Lucy had been for the last five-and-twenty years training him pretty smartly to obey her, with the intention, it is to be charitably hoped, of letting him rule her in turn when his lesson was perfected.

he who has trembled before the pedagogue's rod will not face the spear willingly.

The Lord doesn't need anything "special" from you or me. He certainly doesn't need our counsel. When He sovereignly chooses you to do something great, He doesn't need your advice on how to go about it.

when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.

Moses] dedicated himself to the will of God, but not to the God whose will it was.

When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.

Which should be an excellent reminder that when God tells you to do something, you'd better do it; He always has a reason.

Moses, you see, had walked with God long enough to know that even though the Lord's directions might seem foolish, he wasn't to question them. And

Why should He have to suffer on behalf of humanity? Nomoral imperative required God to sacrifice His Son. He would be no less holy or righteous if He allowed the race of sin-sick humans to suffer the just consequences of their own rebellion. Nothing compelled Jesus to complete the mission—nothing, that is, except love for the people He had made and obedience to His Father.

When you are in the center of God's will, my friend, it flows.

Faith is asking the question, what does the Lord want me to be doing right now, in this moment? and then doing what we know is pleasing to Him.