Quotes About Obedience

Several were still pubescent girls, such as fourteen-year-old Helen Mar Kimball. Although she acquiesced when the prophet explained that God had commanded her to become his plural wife—and that she would be permitted twenty-four hours to comply—Helen later confided to a friend, "I was young, and they deceived me, by saying the salvation of our whole family depended on it.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.2 —American motto suggested

mother. "Some men call it conscience," she replied, "but I prefer to call it the voice of God in the soul of man. If you listen and obey it, then it will speak clearer and clearer, and always guide you right, but if you turn a deaf ear and disobey it will fade out little by little, and leave you all in the dark and without a guide." He never forgot the conversation, or its implications.

Everything he'd done with regard to her in the last three years had been calculated to foreclose the intensely personal sort of talks they'd had when he was younger: to get her to shut up, to train her to contain herself, to make her stop pestering him with her overfull heart and her uncensored self. And now that the training was complete and she was obediently trivial with him, he felt bereft of her and wanted to undo it.

I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.

Abraham didn't say, "What do you want?" He didn't say, "Yes?" He answered with a statement: "Here I am." Whatever God needs or wants, Abraham is wholly present for Him, without conditions or reservations or need for explanation.

Steve introduced me to the process of putting God's Word into practice, of acting on His promises and commands. I would read something in the Bible and consciously say, "This is God's will." Intellectually, I understood the meaning of it. Emotionally, I had to put this new truth to the test, to prove it by my own will. "Yes, this is God's will," adding, "for me.

When our motivation to obey becomes an oppressive pressure to do the right thing, to do what's expected of us as Christians, then it breeds serious problems. Obedience that is only seen as rule-keeping ruins the love relationship between us and the Lord. Why? Even though the rules may be biblically based, we will end up obeying them rather than God. Concern with the letter of the law will cause us to lose the spirit of love.

O que um homem faz é como se todos os homens o fizessem. Por isso não é injusto que uma desobediência num jardim contamine a todos; por isso não é injusto que a crucificação de um único judeu baste para salvar todo o gênero humano.

Bandeira, sin embargo, siempre es nominalmente el jefe. Da órdenes que no se ejecutan

However, despite our lack of facial hair, every Navajo recruit was still expected to put soap on his face each morning and scrape away his imaginary beard. What you did in boot camp did not have to make sense. You just had to do it.

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.

Compelled respect always implies fear.

Similarly, the more tyrants pillage, the more they crave, the more they ruin and destroy; the more one yields to them, and obeys them, by that much do they become mightier and more formidable, the readier to annihilate and destroy. But if not one thing is yielded to them, if, without any violence they are simply not obeyed, they become naked and undone and as nothing, just as, when the root receives no nourishment, the branch withers and dies.

Première raison de la servitude volontaire, c'est la coutume

It is true that in the beginning men submit under constraint and by force; but those who come after them obey without regret and perform willingly what their predecessors had done because they had to. This is why men born under the yoke and then nourished and reared in slavery are content, without further effort, to live in their native circumstance, unaware of any other state or right, and considering as quite natural the condition into which they were born.

But if not one thing is yielded to them, if, without any violence they are simply not obeyed, they become naked and undone and as nothing, just as, when the root receives no nourishment, the branch withers and dies.

C'est à cause de la légitimité que le peuple octroie à l'Etat que le dit Etat use de violence vis-à-vis du peuple lorsque celui-ci ne fait pas ce qu'il a décidé.

Voir un nombre infini de personnes non pas obéir, mais servir ; non pas être gouvernés, mais tyrannisés ; n'ayant ni biens ni parents, femmes ni enfants, ni leur vie même qui soit à eux !

Mais, ô bon Dieu ! que peut être cela ? comment dirons-nous que cela s'appelle ? quelle malheur est celui-là ? quel vice, ou plutôt quel malheureux vice ? Voir un nombre infini de personnes non pas obéir, mais servir […].

Over the pope as the expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there still stands one's own conscience, which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority.

They said: 'Beseech on our behalf thy Lord to make plain to us what (heifer) it is!' He said: 'He says: the heifer should be neither too old nor too young, but of middling age: now do what ye are commanded!