Quotes About Obedience

submission. God doesn't want slaves.

When you do God's work, God helps you do it.

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic. Thus there have ever been, and will ever be, men who, after having submitted some portion of their religious belief to the principle of authority, will seek to exempt several other parts of their faith from its influence, and to keep their minds floating at random between liberty and obedience.

The genius of stable societies is that they achieve stability without stagnation, repetition without monotony, conformity with originality, obedience with liberty.

Silly…but the mere issuing of a command always inspires confidence. It doesn't matter whether it is a necessary command, or even a correct one…it inspires self-confidence even in the man who issues it.

Men of the cloth live in this monologue, it is their due: nobody talks back to a pulpit.

Do you like Mother and Father?" "they're both all right" "they're not Jimmy, and you shouldn't say so. I hate them, and you should hate them." "all right" I said, "I hate them.

This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

Como dice el refrán oriental del sabio Hilali, 'una persona que entiende vale más que cien que meramente obedecen a una costumbre.

The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.

You will love this man. Do you understand? You will love him, serve him, and obey him in all things. This is your duty to me and to France. Am I clear?' Isabella is twelve years old and astoundingly pretty, a woman in a girl's body. She keeps her eyes on the floor and nods her head.

God was not say, 'I'm giving you these commands, and by keeping them you may become my people.' He was saying, 'I'm giving you these commands because you are my people.' The law tells us how people who belong to God ought to live.

Let's do right in the eyes of God!

Furthermore, we teach that it is necessary to do good works. This does not mean that we merit grace by doing good works, but because it is God's will

A young man's duty is to behave well to his parents at home and to his elders abroad.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Genghis had once told him he should never give an order they would not obey. He should never let them see the limits of his authority. The

The world has grown too large for one army of the nation, my brother. You will ride where I tell you to ride, conquer where I tell you to conquer. The world is yours, if you can put aside the base part of you that tells you to rule it all. That you may not have. Now give me an answer and your oath. Your word is iron, brother, and I will take it. Or I can just kill you now.

They had learned that Sorhatani expected the same sort of instant obedience as her husband. She had grown up around men of power and had married into the great khan's family at a very young age. She knew that men prefer to follow, that it takes an effort of will to lead. She had that will.

Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.