Quotes of: Obedience Keyword

Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility. There are very few in the world today who have obedience. Our humility is in proportion to our obed...

Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

Obedience to a woman leads to hell.

Arabian

All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel.

Jakob Bohme

An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent.

Jim George

Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order to experience life in Christ; it is what comes to us when we are walking in the way of faith and obedience.

Perseverance: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

You do not need a whip to urge on an obedient horse.

Russian

Storms are not punishment for lack of obedience; oftentimes they are the result of obedience!

What Are You Afraid Of?

Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.

The Cost of Discipleship

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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.

Anatole Broyard

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Alexander Berkman

And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people who were the obedient witnesses of this slaughter of the innocent. Nor were they merely obedient witnesses: when ordered to, they gave their support...

Life and Fate

Once a man discovers that his obedience is primarily for others’ sake, that every miracle that ever amazed happened because of someone’s obedience somewhere, that properly understood, his obedience prepares the way for His visitation, well, then ...

Geoffrey Wood

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Beyond Good and Evil

Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God's statutes and nothing else.

Israelmore Ayivor

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Havelock Ellis

If uncertain, it's best to pass by a possibly good dog than risk injury.

Dog Logic: Companion Obedience, Rapport-Based Training

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

John Nelson Darby

The call goes forth, and is at once followed by the response of obedience. The response of the disciples is an act of obedience, not a confession of faith in Jesus.

The Cost of Discipleship

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegitimate, and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.

Democracy in America

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.

Obedience to Authority