Quotes of: Obedient Keyword

Here's the real secret: you can fulfill the commands of the Bible better by falling in love with God than by trying to obey him. It's not that your obedience isn't significant or relevant; it's simply not the center of the wheel. No, the hub of your ...

Fresh Air: Trading Stale Spiritual Obligation for a Life-Altering, Energizing, Experience-It-Everyday Relationship with God

Finally, Lutheran and Reformed traditions distinguish (without separating) three uses of the law: the first (pedagogical), to expose our guilt and corruption, driving us to Christ; the second, a civil use to restrain public vice; and the third, to gu...

Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples

Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was civil obedience, the submission of individual conscienc...

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

What marvelous things happen when men and women walk with faith in obedience to that which is required of them! I recall reading the story of Commander William Robert Anderson, the naval officer who took the submarine Nautilus beneath the polar ice f...

Gordon B. Hinckley

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Fields Of Gold

The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

Killosophy

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

Obedience to Authority

The beauty of obedience is that what God expects you to do, He also enables you to do.

One-Minute Insights for Men

Much of education today focuses on obedience skills rather than critical thinking skills.

Voice of Reason

Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

What Are You Afraid Of?

Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?

Wolf Hall

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

A Woman After God's Own Heart

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Bruno Bettelheim

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

Maya Angelou

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people are unemployed because they lack the minimum required education. Others are unemployed because they lack the minimum required obedience.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

Wendell Phillips

What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.

James E. Faust

Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.

Malala Yousafzai

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

Charles Hodge

Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy.

James E. Faust