Quotes About Obedience

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Sometimes you had to make the animals perform.

Silence your dog, captain!

Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily. There is nothing in the world capable of such spontaneous up-lifting, of such speedy ennoblement; nothing that offers more scrupulous obedience to the pure and noble command it receives.

Lord, help us to see that what you ask of us is for our own good. Help us believe that the shortest distance between us and the life we long for is total obedience to you. Help us be courageous and consistent in choosing to be obedient to you. Amen.

Since the days of Bluebeard the Best way of getting a man to do a thing is to tell him not to do it

We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say "They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine." The freedom, God help us, to say "I was only following orders."-World War Z

Intelligent men found that among the hardest parts of war was the need to accept orders from stupid ones.

Der moralische Einfluß nimmt da seinen Anfang, wo die Demütigung beginnt, ja er ist nichts anderes, als diese Demütigung selbst, die Brechung und Beugung des Mutes zur Demut herab.

Adam and Eve thought they had a greater knowledge than God. They were created to be like God, not to be God.

The cross is a crisis point for all societies which seek to produce me in and women of quiescence, men and women who are trained to give unquestioning, uncritical obedience to worldly powers and not to Christ.

Mastery in Servitude

If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!

Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people!

Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!

When we go out of ourselves through obedience and strip ourselves of what is ours, then God must enter into us; for when someone wills nothing for themselves, then God must will on their behalf just as he does for himself.

If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God.

People don't obey a law just because they're told to. But if they know the consequences of an act and do it anyway, then that's a conscious and informed choice and they have no cause to protest the punishment.

Self-hatred is the best vehicle for making people do as they're told because they are hungry to get approval.

The dogma of religion is love, and love is obedience to creationism.

Lourenço o menino não entendeu uma coisa: vocês não manda, você só dá ordens. Entendeu?

Arcángel Baleiro, el cazador. Ese hombre me cazó hace tiempo. Desde entonces nunca más he tenido descanso. Huir de un amor es la manera más perfecta de obedecerlo. Cuanto más dueña de mí misma, más esclava de ese amor. No hay río en este mundo que me libre de esa trampa.

Mi pecado se volvía más grave debido a los tiempos de crisis en que vivíamos. Cuantas más certezas nos robaba la guerra, más carecíamos de la seguridad de un pasado hecho de orden y obediencia.

The Templars were sworn to poverty, chastity, and obedience.