Quotes About Obedience

But a dictator doesn't need supporters, he just needs followers. And the best way to make people follow, at least in the eyes of guys like that, is to give them no choice in the matter.

An army controlled by the whim of the lowest soldier is not an army at all. It is anarchy.

what was the very first injunction laid by the Lord upon our first ancestor? . . . name all the beasts .

I'd really like to go with you, Agachak. Truly I would...but I just can't. I don't understand. Why not? I'm not allowed to leave home. My mother'd punish me something awful if I did... But you're the king. That doesn't change a thing. I still do what mother says. She tells everybody that I'm the best boy ever when it comes to that. Agachak resisted a powerful urge to change this half-wit into a toad or perhaps a jellyfish.

That's a strange hobby for a Church Knight. God hired me as a fighting man, Sparhawk, not as a monk. I fight whenever He tells me to, but the rest of my time is my own.

No está ante nosotros para ser utilizado. No está ahí suplicándonos poder entrar en nuestro mundo interno y satisfacer nuestras necesidades terapéuticas. Estamos ante él para oír su mandato. Y su mandamiento es que seamos santos, lo cual es algo mucho más grande que ser felices.

Cristo, como Adán, también nació sin pecado. Pero, a diferencia de Adán, aprendió a caminar ante su Padre con gozo y completa obediencia.

That is why we must come back to our first principles. And the most basic of these is the fact that God is there and that he is objective to us. He is not there to conform to us; we must conform to him. He summons us from outside of ourselves to know him. We do not go inside of ourselves to find him. We are summoned to know him only on his terms. He is not known on our terms. This summons is heard in and through his Word. It is not heard through our intuitions.

Don't ask why if you don't want to die. Do as you're told if you want to get old.

By all means don't THINK about the validity of what they're claiming your life hinges on. Oh do not ask what IS it. Do not ask not whether it's not insane. Simply open wide for the spoon.

he began to feel that she was very lonely indeed. "If he'd been here," she said, "those cowards would never have dared to insult me." She thought about "him" with great sadness and perhaps longing--about his honest, stupid, constant kindness and fidelity; his never-ceasing obedience; his good humour; his bravery and courage. Very likely she cried, for she was particularly lively, and had put on a little extra rouge, when she came down to dinner.

So any order from on high, regardless of its moral worth, must be obeyed. Is that what America has really become? Did we let it slip away an inch at a time before we were attacked, and now we are finally driving straight off the cliff once and for all?

Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.

As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not

Serve God, love me, and mend.:

I, sir, am Dromio; command him away. I, sir, am Dromio; pray, let me stay.

You shall mark Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, Wears out his time, much like his master's ass, For nought but provender; and when he's old, cashier'd: Whip me such honest knaves.

There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obey'd in office. - Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand! Why dost though lash that whore? Strip thine own back; Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind For which thou whipst her. The usurer hangs the cozener.

I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, I must not say no.

Master Custard, you must rise and be hanged

How does thy honor? Let me lick your shoe, I'll not serve him; he is not valiant.

Read it you, sirrah.

28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.