Quotes About Obedience

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the Lord gave you the prompting. It makes me feel good that the Lord even knows who I am and knows me well enough to know that if He has an errand to be run, and He prompts me to run the errand, the errand will get done.

Here in the West, people often don't like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the body's help and service, is better disposed for the service and praise of our Creator and Lord.

Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

God can show you just what you need to give, even if you don't know exactly why you're giving it. That's why we should always seek God and prepare to give Him our very best.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

I am extremely, annoyingly compliant. I hate breaking the rules, and I love it when people tell me what to do and I can deliver.

Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve.

From the time I was taught how to drive, I was taught how to behave when I'm stopped.

Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably infer that giving the state the job of punishing wrongdoers is one way of giving the state its due.

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.

Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom.

The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

I'm not the best in the kitchen, but if someone gives me something to do, I can do it. I'm a good teammate. Come Thanksgiving time, I kind of just do what my mom tells me to.