Quotes About Obedience

I have a natural tendency to go away when told to do so. Do you really want me to?

If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one may compel obedience but never love.

I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.

Jesucristo se hace hombre para salvarnos. El camino que recorre en esta tierra es el de la entrega. Con una libertad divina —sin que nadie lo obligue— llega hasta el extremo: obedeciendo a la voluntad de su Padre, extiende sus brazos en la cruz para redimirnos y hacernos participar de su amor.

If someone is very hungry, the Angkar will take him where he will be stuffed with food.

The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.

Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Obedience is the road to freedom.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

Obedience is the path to freedom.