Quotes About Obedience

No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.

There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.

As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

The one good thing about the Angels was they always colored within the lines. They had to. Suckers.

God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

Do everything you're told. Be a good cheerleader. And never, never say, 'It's not so bad.' Say 'You are almost there!' And say it a lot.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws?

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Go back to bed America... you are free to do as we tell you... you are free to do as we tell you.

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive.

Government was instituted by God to bring His laws to people and to carry out His will and purposes.

When any civil government steps outside the mandate authorized by God Almighty, then that government does not have any further claim over its citizens.