Quotes About Obedience

Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.

The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.

The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.

It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.

If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said 'Yes I'll gut my kid to show my love of God.'

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.