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Quotes About Obedience

Be you never so high, the law is above you.
~ Thomas Fuller
Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Cae-
~ Matthew
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
~ Johann von Goethe
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let they child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
~ Benjamin Franklin
This is a sane, wholesome, practical, working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God; second, that God himself takes on the care of that man; and third, that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything.
~ George MacDonald
I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
~ W. S. Gilbert
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
~ Oswald Chambers
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
~ Joseph Addison
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but only with being true to God, and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
~ Frederick W. Robertson
Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed . . . And all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city.
~ Bible
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Not my will, but thine, be done.
~ Bible
Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.
~ Jules Michelet
Kaže se, raja se odmetnula, raja je neposlušna i nevaljala. Jeste. Ali treba znati da raja ne diše svojom dušom, nego sluša dah gospodara. To vi dobro znate. Uvijek se gospoda prvo iskvare, a raja samo prihvati. A kad se jednom raja otme i pohasi, idi slobodno pa traži drugu, jer od te nema više ništa.
~ Ivo Andri?
Postoji pri?a da je na dvoru nekog sultana bio naro?it ?inovnik ?ija je titula glasila: evet-efendija. Njegova jedina dužnost bila je "da klima glavom u znak odobravanja na sve što sultan kaže
~ Ivo Andri?
The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.
~ J. Gresham Machen
One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline -- who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices -- do not qualify to lead.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
You will be expected to obey orders, or this appointment can and will be terminated. Again, at the discretion of the primary. We run this by the book. I've always wondered. How many pages are in that book of yours? And smart mouthing to the primary can result in disciplinary action. Darling. You know how that excites me.
~ J.D. Robb
Religion was a riddle to her. Believe this, and only this, because we say so. If you don't you're buying a one-way ticket to everlasting Hell.
~ J.D. Robb
Dog accepts punish as something fair... No other animal will accept the punish just because it follows it's instinct.
~ J.M. Coetzee