Quotes About Obedience

The plethora of laws is a sign that nobody knows anymore how to command intelligently. Or that nobody knows anymore how to obey freely. When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.

The society of the future: slavery without masters.

SILENCE you miserable cretins!

For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.

Obedience seemed the safest plan. I hadn't learned yet. In this world it's the obedient girls who are most in danger.

According to her views," her niece later recalled, "little girls were to be taught to move very gently, to speak softly and prettily, to say 'yes, ma'am' and 'no, ma'am,' never to tear their clothes, to sew, to knit at regular hours, to go to church on Sunday and make all the responses, and to come home and be catechised." Harriet

Go wherever God says and you will be a success. Do whatever He tells you to do and you will win. Those two simple sentences sum up the entire definition for success.

authoritarian institutions, such as governments and churches, do not use language but jargon, repetitive phrases that are not supposed to have meaning but merely enforce obedience. Language has its own internalizing ethic; it is individualistic and thus threatening to any monolithic system that demands a chorus or litany.

D.A. I got my orders—either the recordings and the witness' name, or I put a slug in you where it'll do the most good.

In most religious systems we are regarded as parts of the godhead which, if they do not obey the impulses of the whole, and even if they do not intentionally act against the laws of the whole, but only go their own way and do not want to be parts of it, are medically treated by the godhead—and either endure a painful cure or even are cut off.

If man will acknowledge fully the lordship of the Creator by obeying his word purely for the sake of obedience, he shall experience the consummate blessing of the covenant.

A leader Most will follow, Or a tyrant Most fear.

The death that kills a puppy first blinds him. The headstrong who won't listen will finally obey the summons of the death mat. The housefly who has nobody to advise it follows the corpse into the grave.

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

Disciples are not so much those who follow as those who must follow.

The called-out assembly of God's people, which is subordinated to Christ as its head and coordinated with its fellow members of the body, lives its life by its practical obedience to God's call in Christ.

To believe in Jesus is to bow twice and then to obey forever

but conformity to the will and the way of Jesus is life and freedom itself—under his authority.

La sociedad. (...) una lucha entre individuos. Y una lucha en que el ganarla lo supone todo. El ser humano no obedece a nadie.

Mom JIMMY What if the word yes meant no? MOM Go to sleep, you have school tomorrow JIMMY No MOM Quit playing games with me JIMMY Yes

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him.