Quotes About Obedience

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.

A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.

It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life.

I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

When you have given yourself to Christ, leave yourself there, and go about your work as a child in His household.

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I won't be getting out of line anytime soon.

My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room.

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.

My parents are really quite strict, so I have to be home at a certain time - even now, at the age of 25.

My parents were incredibly strict. My father went through a stage where he'd line us up every Friday and cane our hands if we'd been naughty. And this was mainly to pull my brother into line. My brother is five years older and my sister's eight years older. He would use a little bamboo cane, which my brother saw most of.

My parents were very strict and had rules for me and, if ever I was playing outside, I always had a set time to come back in.

I always stayed on top of my schoolwork. I did it because I had to and because I had a strict father. He made sure I did my homework and told me not to mess around in class.

The doctor has advised me to eat home-cooked food and I follow that strictly.

If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.

The frustration of being ordered around by somebody to do something - everyone can relate to that. I think Beetle represents that - the common man caught in that morass of rules and regulations. I don't even think of it as an army strip... it's a world anyone can understand.

I will go where the Lord and the leaders of His Church want me to go, I will do what they want me to do, I will teach what they want me to teach, and I will strive to become what I should and must become.

There's not a Christian out there who hasn't struggled with wanting to break a rule or having broken a rule over and over again.

We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.