After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.
Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
I believe a calm dog is a happy, obedient dog that won't get into trouble.
A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.
In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.
No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.
God's promises are always yes. It only takes faith and obedience to recognize them. When you do, claim them with sincerity in your heart.
Gandhi: They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me, then they will have my dead body. NOT MY OBEDIENCE!
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.
Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
Build your life in self-control purity, moderation in food and drink, and obedience to the will Divine. and you will have built well !!!!
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....
...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads
How can a man know how to live rightly on the face of earth? By daily reading and meditation on the Holy Scriptures and obedience to what is written.
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.
