Quotes About Obedience

God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.

The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

Because I fear God, I have no man to fear.

A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch.

There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

He was tempted to park the SUV illegally, since, according to his calculations, the authorities were not likely to catch up with him and demand payment of the parking ticket before the end of the world, but it seemed that most of the people of Seattle were still obeying the rules and so he did likewise.

If she screws up this delivery, that means she's double-crossing God, who may or may not exist, and in any case who is capable of forgiveness. The Mafia definitely exists and hews to a higher standard of obedience.

Sir, if you ask a Marine if he wants another cigarette, or if he's ready, the answer is always the same, sir!

Gratitude and obedience. At The Frogs, the relationship between a knight and the people was clearly understood.

Boys, he said, only want to know two things: who is in charge, and what are the rules.

Most of you, therefore, spend the bulk of your adult life searching for the "right" way to worship, to obey, and to serve God. The irony of all this is that I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve Me.

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.

What were you tring to do, soldier? I was trying to eat, sir! And what happened? I got caught thinking about some crap, sir! What kind of crap? How I want to live less than my parent's dog.