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Quotes About Obedience

To the States or any 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 afterward resumes its liberty.
~ Walt Whitman
To the States 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 afterward resumes its liberty.
~ Walt Whitman
Az engedelmességrÅ'l, h?ségrÅ'l, ragaszkodásról; Amint így távol állok, s elnézem, van számomra valami mélységesen megható az óriási embertömegekben, amelyek azok irányítását követik, akik nem hisznek az emberiségben.
~ Walt Whitman
Everyone must, from time to time, make a sacrifice on the altar of stupidity, to please the deity and mankind.
~ Walter Isaacson
God's commands are arbitrary if He has no reason to command one act rather than another; but, if He does have reasons for His commands, then His reasons rather than His commands are what make acts immoral.
~ Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.
~ Ward Churchill
The Law requires much, but offers no help in the carrying out of its requirements. The Lord Jesus requires just as much, yea more (Matt. 5:21–48). But what He requires from us, He Himself carries out in us. The Law makes demands and leaves us helpless to fulfill them; Christ makes demands, but He Himself fulfills in us the very demands He makes.
~ Watchman Nee
He who has ascended the cross and refuses to drink the vinegar mingled with gall is the one who knows the Lord. Many go up to the cross rather reluctantly, still thinking of drinking vinegar mingled with gall to alleviate their pain. All who say—"The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not drink it?"—will not drink the cup of vinegar mingled with gall.
~ Watchman Nee
Only those who are subject to authority can be authority.
~ Watchman Nee
The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind.
~ Watchman Nee
Whenever man touches God's delegated authority he touches God within that person; sinning against delegated authority is sinning against God.
~ Watchman Nee
que cedamos todos los derechos de nosotros mismos y nos sometamos al señorío absoluto de Jesucristo en cada área de nuestras vidas.
~ Watchman Nee
If man's soul wills to obey God, it will allow the spirit to rule over the man as ordered by God. The soul, if it chooses, also can suppress the spirit and take some other delight as lord of the man.
~ Watchman Nee
How much in our prayers is self completely forgotten and the will of the Lord is alone the thing that is sought?
~ Watchman Nee
Los que somos tan justos según nuestra propia opinión, y sin embargo, tan ciegos, necesitamos tener a lo menos una vez en la vida un encuentro con la autoridad de Dios para que seamos quebrantados hasta la sumisión y comencemos así a aprender la obediencia a su autoridad. Antes de que un hombre pueda someterse a la autoridad delegada de Dios tiene que conocer primero la autoridad inherente de Dios.
~ Watchman Nee
Whatever prayer is not according to God's will is utterly
~ Watchman Nee
How many of Gods servants are used by Him, as we say in China, to build a 12 feet of wall, only when they have done so to undo it all by themselves pulling down 15 feet!
~ Watchman Nee
How many of Gods servants are used by Him, as we say in China, to build 12 feet of wall, only when they have done so to undo it all by themselves pulling down 15 feet!
~ Watchman Nee
Satanás no tiene miedo de que los cristianos hagan cosas buenas; él solamente teme que hagan la voluntad de Dios.
~ Watchman Nee
Al servir a Dios no debemos desobedecer a las autoridades, porque el hacerlo es un principio de Satanás.
~ Watchman Nee
The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind. Though the Christian may not feel like obeying God
~ Watchman Nee
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment.
~ Watchman Nee
God in heaven will only bind and loose what His children
~ Watchman Nee
since God's Word is living, he who listens and does not have a living response is he who has not actually heard the Word of God.
~ Watchman Nee