Quotes About Obedience

From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God.' 'Then who are you?' 'The personnel officer who hired God.

I have never resisted the Lord in my life, Sister LeSueur, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

The task of the tyrant is not to compel, but to persuade even the unwilling that compliance better serves their interest than resistance.

The PCs were willing, but the powers that be didn't want to commit troops.

Saber qué hacer con un batallón es fácil —dijo Ender—. Conseguir que lo hagan es lo difícil. ¿Por

Don't you? said Father. To spare the rod is to spoil the child---God has told us how to make our children pure from the moment they achieve accountability until they have mastered their own discipline. I strike my son's body to teach his spirit to embrace the pure love of Christ. You will teach him to hate his enemies, so that it no longer matters whether his body is living or dead, for his soul will be polluted and God will spit him out of his mouth.

Masters never are content with mere respect from their servants.

You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer. Until you get a soldier who can do more than anyone else. You can't have that. It spoils the symmetry. You must get him in line, break him down, isolate him, beat him until he gets in line with everyone else.

Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, And treat each other kindly, And live simple generous lives?

And yet they obey and will continue to obey the orders that come to them. As in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade, these soldiers give up their lives, trusting that their commanders are using them well. While we sit safely here in these simulator rooms, playing an elaborate computer game, they are obeying, dying so that all of humankind can live.

When God anoints a person, a pattern of testing appears to take place at specific times in the leader's life. God often takes each leader through four major tests to determine if that person will achieve God's ultimate call on his or her life. The person's response to these tests is the deciding factor in whether they can advance to the next level of responsibility in God's Kingdom.

On peut obliger le peuple à obéir. On ne peut pas le forcer à comprendre.

If you yourself are correct, even without the issuing of orders, things will get done; if you yourself are incorrect, although orders are issued, they will not be obeyed

I wonder how often evangelical Christians in today's world have completely inverted these priorities, kowtowing to the overly conservative, judgmental insiders and blasting away at the non-Christian world for not adhering to Christian morality. Yet how can we expect non-Christians to pursue Christian morality when they do not have God's Spirit within them, the Spirit who alone makes such obedience possible?

Don't worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don't have opposition, because you're probably not obeying God.

love throughout John's Gospel and his Epistles is consistently defined in terms of obedience and keeping God's commands

Messo di fronte al generale von Heunert e ai salmoni della Lapponia, egli stava dalla parte dei salmoni. Ma, in fondo, come tutti i tedeschi, giudici o no, obbediva ai generali. Il guaio di tutti i salmoni d'Europa è questo: che anche i tedeschi stanno dalla parte dei salmoni, ma obbediscono ai generali.

I want you to treat me nicely and respectfully. Call you 'sir', perhaps? she asked quietly. Yes, call me 'sir'. I should love it. Then I wish you would go upstairs, sir.

There is always a master. And men either live in glad obedience to the master they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine. In America this frictional opposition has been the vital factor.

father's command is a son's law!

Oh captain my captain

TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

Thought Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness; As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.

Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.