Quotes About Obedience

Strive, My Son, to do another's will rather than thine own. Choose always to have less rather than more. Seek always after the lowest place, and to be subject to all. Wish always and pray that the will of God be fulfilled in thee. Behold, such a man as this entereth into the inheritance of peace and quietness.

Seek, child, to do the will of others rather than your own. Always choose to have less rather than more. Look always for the last place and seek to be beneath all others. Always wish and pray that the will of God be fully carried out in you. Behold, such will enter into the realm of peace and rest.

Then enduring patience shall have more might than all the power of the world. Then simple obedience shall be more highly exalted than all worldly wisdom.

Procura, hijo, hacer antes la voluntad de otro que la tuya. Escoge siempre tener menos que más. Busca siempre el lugar más bajo, y está sujeto a todos. Desea siempre y ruega que se cu1mpla en ti enteramente la divina voluntad. Así entrarás en los términos de la paz y descanso.

Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered.

Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.

Into your hands, 0 Lord, we commit ourselves this day. Give to each one of us a watchful, a humble, and a diligent spirit that we may seek in all things to know your will, and when we know it may perform it perfectly and gladly, to the honor and glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Gelasian Sacramentary

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall."

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

III. 23. ?Your Lord has decreed that you should worship only God, and be good to your parents. Whether one or both of them reaches old age with you, never speak to them harshly,

Although I often give in to my daughter, she is fully aware that I am the only one at home who will discipline her if she is naughty.

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

There's no excuse for breaking the law.

For a long time, I was living my life my way and not God's way. I wasn't living it by his rules, I was living it by my own rules. And that didn't get me anywhere. I got to the point where I had no hope.

Whatever the rules are, we have to follow them. I have no problem with it.

Voltaire's pointed question, 'What to say to a man who tells you he prefers to obey God than to obey men, and who is consequently sure of entering the gates of Heaven by slitting your throat?

To do the will of God means to do my own most deeply hidden will. Within even the most unworthy of men there is a servant of God, asleep.

Because what God wants, that, and only that, is also what we want—but we don't know it. God comes and awakens our souls, revealing to them their real, though unknown, desire. This is the secret, Brother Leo. To do the will of God means to do my own most deeply hidden will.

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

A democracy is a system in which you are free to do whatever you like as long as you do what we tell you.

Any dictator would admire the obedience and uniformity of the U.S media.