Quotes About Obedience

Why" is a nasty little Protestant word, you follow? Catholics, now, say, "Credo, I Believe," to whatever the Pope says. If you want to ask "Why?" go ask the Anglican vicar to instruct you in unbelief and he will let you "Why-why-why?" to your heart's content.

Complaints about the demise of society and the "youth of today" also tend to be timeless. Consider this pronouncement, inscribed on an Assyrian tablet circa 2800 B.C.: Our earth is degenerate these days . . . bribery and corruption abound, children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and the end of the world is evidently approaching.

Consider this pronouncement, inscribed on an Assyrian tablet circa 2800 B.C.: Our earth is degenerate these days . . . bribery and corruption abound, children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and the end of the world is evidently approaching.

Whenever people idealize their caretakers, chances are pretty good that the opposite is true. Sometimes illusion is created by the parents, who insists in godlike fashion that they're perfect and that the child owes them obedience because they're responsible for his or her existence. Other times the illusion is created by the child as a survival strategy, disconnecting from reality in order to avoid the pain of growing up in a toxic enviroment.

Dog Training by Lew Burke

Submitting to God requires us to deal with the sin in our lives. Sin

Believers have both the authority to do God's will because of their position in Christ, and the power to do God's will as long as they walk by the Spirit.

God, however, has not called us to produce fruit, only to bear it as we abide in Christ.

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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Moreover, a Republic trusting to her own forces, is with greater difficulty than one which relies on foreign arms brought to yield obedience to a single citizen. Rome and Sparta remained for ages armed and free. The Swiss are at once the best armed and the freest people in the world.

Os homens são tão simplórios e obedientes às necessidades imediatas que aquele que engana sempre encontrará quem se deixe enganar.

Mientras que, en los Estados gobernados por un príncipe asistido por siervos, el príncipe goza de mayor autoridad: porque en toda la provincia no se reconoce soberano sine a él, y si se obedece a otro, a quien además no se tienen particular amor, sólo se lo hace per tratarse de un ministro y magistrado del principe.

it is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him who is unarmed

Pero cuando las ciudades o provincias están acostumbradas a vivir bajo un principe, y por la extinción de éste y su linaje queda vacante el gobierno, como por un lado los habitantes estfán habituados a obedecer y por otro no tienen a quién, y no se ponen de acuerdo para elegir a uno de entre ellos, ni saben vivir en libertad, y por último tampoco se deciden a tomar las armas contra el invasor, un principe puede fácilmente conquistarlas y retenerlas.

El príncipe no ha de tener otro objeto, ni abrigar otro propósito, ni cultivar otro arte, que el que enseña, el orden y la disciplina de los ejércitos, porque es el único que se espera ver ejercido por el que manda.

La razón y la experiencia nos enseñan que el hombre que se halla armado no obedece con gusto al que está desarmado

Les hommes sont si naïfs, et ils obéissent tant aux nécessités présentes que celui qui trompe trouvera toujours quelqu'un qui se laissera tromper.

Se concluye de esto que todo el que no quiera vencer no tiene más que servirse de esas tropas, muchísimo más peligrosas que las mercenarias, porque están perfectamente unidas y obedecen ciegamente a sus jefes, con lo cual la ruina es inmediata; mientras que las mercenarias, para someter al príncipe, una vez que han triunfado, necesitan esperar tiempo y ocasión, pues no constituyen un cuerpo unido y, por añadidura, están a sueldo del príncipe. En

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Whatever religion you believe in, if you take almighty's name and follow his words obediently, you will be safe to an extent.

We have to be a nation of laws.

If you don't do it the way coaches ask you to do something, and someone else does it the way it's supposed to be done, that's just natural life.

It's all for the glory of the Empire, honey, and don't you forget it.