Quotes About Obedience

For us humans, that will mean that our obedience, which we owe to our Creator and Lord and to all his direct and indirect commands, can be, in Jesus Christ, and even must be, an expression of our love; so that any love of God or other human beings which excludes obedience, or wishes to get beyond it, does not at all deserve the name love.

To disobey an order is, I know, unforgivable, but the determination to save my comrades

civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us.

Thee mustn't speak evil of thy rulers, Simeon," said his father, gravely. "The Lord only gives us our worldly goods that we may do justice and mercy; if our rulers require a price of us for it, we must deliver it up.

Well," said Eliza, mournfully, "I always thought that I must obey my master and mistress, or I couldn't be a Christian.

Now, John, I don't know anything about politics, but I can read my Bible; and there I see that I must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the desolate; and that Bible I mean to follow." "But in cases where your doing so would involve a great public evil--" "Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us.

Absolutely every government regulation is enforced by violence. If you've never seen that violence, it's because you've been careful, obedient, or lucky.

In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. And in the long run, it's better to please God—He's more apt to remember.

them, "fall in behind the armored personnel carriers, at once." The Germans' boots pounded on the macadam

Some things unfortunately yielded to no man's orders. Maybe that was why foolish people imagined gods into being: to have someone whose orders were sure to be obeyed.

He wasn't a man, but a tape recorder, repeating catch phrases and old slogans without any thought to the concepts behind them, a dog stuck in the training of his youth and faithfully executing his tasks long after his master had moved on.

I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says.

As our faith grows and we come to know more about the attributes of God and his role in our lives and our obedience, we learn to see our weakness in light of these words, "For is it God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure" (Phil. 2:13).

As believers, everything we do is based on how we view God.

And," said the Keeper, his eyes cold. "You are never to refuse me another dance again.

Only Complete and absolute surrender.

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

Just think of what would have happened to poor old Naaman if he had decided to dunk himself only once?

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within.

el ejército jominiano era un grupo de hombres convertidos en instrumentos de la voluntad del general a fuerza de disciplina e instrucción.

The baby boom eventually prompted Hubbard to order that no one could get pregnant without his permission; according to several Sea Org members, any woman disobeying his command would be "off-loaded" to another Scientology organization or flown to New York for an abortion.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

We are called upon to obey and follow our Lord the Christ, but it is not because of any fear of Him or of the consequences if we did not follow; it is the love of Christ which constraineth us, as we are told in the Epistle for the first Sunday of Lend. It is because of our love and gratitude to Him that we must follow Him, that we must strain every nerve to make ourselves like Him. That is our reason--not fear but love.