Quotes About Obedience

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.

It is absolutely necessary that the Christian community be subject in all things to the Sovereign Pontiff if it wishes to be a part of the divinely-established society founded by our Redeemer.

It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.

Obedient to her captain's will, The Black Pearl followed her dark angel over the azure water; as fast as the wind, as free as the men who sailed her. it was almost as though she knew she was a legend in the making, destined for adventures both great and terrible...

But the rules of the game don't simply dictate silence or obedience on the reader's part. What sustains the bond — the bondage, if you'll allow it — is its volatility. The dominant party is always vulnerable, the submissive party always capable of rebellion, resistance or outright refusal.

Rape jokes are very far from rebellious, subversive, or oppositional. They are fascist salutes to male supremacy. Laughing about the sexual (and thus the physical, emotional, and psychological) torture of females, signals one's servile obedience to the misogynistic status quo.

Just as we are commanded to keep the Sabbath, we are commanded to labor.

The plea is not to obey what He wills but to do what He is.

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty.

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended... It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

As the launch date grew near, Haig seemed to interpret everything around him in military terms of obedience and duty. When Lady Haig told him that she was expecting their third child, he wrote back, without any trace of jest or irony, "How proud you must feel that you are doing your duty at this time by having a baby and thereby setting a good example to all other females!

This is the essence of Kingdom Authority. Fathers can have no authority in the home until they have surrendered to the headship of Jesus. Mothers cannot pray with authority for their children when they have no submissive spirit to their own husbands. Pastors cannot lead, teach, or preach with anointing and supernatural power without being fully broken and surrendered to the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Word, and the commands of the Spirit.

Remember again the principle: We will never be over those things that God has set under us until we learn to be under those things that God has placed over us. There is strength through surrender. Are

Obedience is mother to success and is wedded to safety.

Powerlessness became 'goodness', baseness 'humility', submission to people one hated 'obedience' and, in Nietzsche's phrase, not-being-able to-take-revenge' turned into 'forgiveness'. Every feeling of weakness was overlaid with a sanctifying name, and made to seem 'a voluntary achievement. something wanted. chosen. a deed, an accomplishment.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, Can I be excused the Crucifixion? No!

Shut up this minute, you silly little creatures...

The king is up. You attend on the king, not on the clock. When the king is awake, you are awake.

I will remove these restraints. And leave this cell, with the door open, and retire to my living quarters. I will speak of this encounter to no one.

Those who had led the rebellion had under-estimated the deeply buried desire of far too large a proportion of the population who simply preferred to be told what to do. Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself.

The Empire does what is necessary," the subofficer observed in a phlegmatic manner which would have gratified his superiors.

Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself.