Quotes About Obedience

The trouble was, I had the dumb loyalty of a dog.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general... I feel like I'm still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can't walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

I believe in walking in the Spirit.

I can do anything for the person I love. I love my parents, and if they ask me to blindly marry someone, I will do so.

My family never allowed me to get too big for my boots.

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.

I say to my kids all the time - and this is absolutely true - I always say, 'Who's the boss?' and they go, 'You are.'

My parents are not people who would want to rock the boat. They wouldn't break the law.

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

Growing up in the '70s, if you were a girl or woman, a man could tell you what to do - if you were sitting on the bus: 'Get up,' 'Move,' whatever. You did what you were told.

Big Brother is watching... look busy.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

It is one thing to obey a government order. It is quite another to succumb to resurrected irrational fears, especially of 'the other.'

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.

When God calls you to do something, and when it's put upon you in such a way that you're boxed in, it has to be.

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Ron Howard is the family patriarch. When he gave orders, directions, or suggestions to family members, they were not to be questioned. It was considered wrong to disagree with him.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.

Seulement la terre qui obéit, sait bien qu'elle tourne en rond, tandis que nous vers l'infini nous précipitons. Translation: But the obedient Earth well knows that she moves round and round, whereas we hurtle down toward infinity.