Quotes About Allegiance

The obligation d'âme meant that his only allegiance was to Felix, making them a separate kingdom of two, with Felix as king and Mildmay as ministers, army, and populace all combined in one. A stormy little kingdom, I thought, with periodic flare-ups of civil war and a magnificently unstable government. And I was glad I wasn't a citizen of it.

No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. —Matthew 6:24

Fawning over Babylon's leaders divides the church. Nearly half of the American church votes one way as one half votes the other. If one's allegiance is to a party, if one thinks one's party is truly Christian, one has cut off one's sisters and brothers.

All of this leads us to one central question for our own lives today: How much of our faith is tied to our own nation and its power?

To be devoted to the Chicago Cubs is to carry a torch of love that defies comparison.

Have mercy on me, Father, and free my foolish heart from giving anything or anyone the attention, allegiance, affection, and adoration you alone deserve.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, "King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty's hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up." (Dan. 3:16–18 NIV)

Be advised my passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised to toast the Queen.

Give me time" "For you, always.

Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.

There comes a time to join the side you're on.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.

The sky may darken, and the clouds may gather, and again the day may come when Britain may have sore need of her children, on whatever shore of the sea they be found. Shall they not muster at her call?

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

In fact, he argued, human beings need loyalty. It does not necessarily produce happiness, and can even be painful, but we all require devotion to something more than ourselves for our lives to be endurable.

CAPTAIN. Well, you dear, have I forgotten it? You have been like a mother to me, and always have stood by me when I had everybody against me, but now, when I really need you, you desert me and go over to the enemy. NURSE.

Podría morir por ti. Pero no voy a vivir para ti.

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.

I would die for you. But I won't live for you." Something

He suddenly lost concern for himself, and forgot to look at a menacing fate. He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part—a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country—was in a crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire. For some moments he could not flee no more than a little finger can commit a revolution from a hand.

I hold to no God, Roland said. I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.

Dance with the one that brought you

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.