Disobedience Obedience Quotes

#1. Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience.

Rick Warren

#2. Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience

Benedict Of Nursia

#4. The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

Barbara Deming

#6. Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. The problem in this world is not civil disobedience ... th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

Howard Zinn

#8. The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

Saint Augustine

#9. Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Edwin Louis Cole

#10. Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.

Hasan Of Basra

#11. Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

Charles Stanley

#13. If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

Martin Firrell

#14. Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience.

Carolyn Shields

#15. But there were other forces at work in the cub, the greatest of which was growth. Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience ... In the end, one day, fear and obedience were swept away by the rush of life, and the cub straddled and sprawled toward the entrance.

Jack London

#16. The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.

Peace Pilgrim

#17. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient! It might be good if we stopped using the terms 'victory' and 'defeat' to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms 'obedience' and 'disobedience.

Jerry Bridges

#18. So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us a radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching.

John R.W. Stott

#19. Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

John Tillotson

#20. Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

Howard Zinn

#21. Any action which lacks in obedience is a fall, and any act of disobedience is rebellion.

Watchman Nee

#22. For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice.

Erich Fromm

#23. there are just two cities on your map. The Nineveh of obedience and the Tarshish of disobedience. You are going to Nineveh or to Tarshish.

Clovis Gillham Chappell

#24. Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

Erich Fromm

#25. He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.

Clement Of Alexandria

#26. I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.

Barbara Dana

#27. Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience

Erich Fromm

#28. The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

Mahatma Gandhi

#29. Making disciples requires not only "sharing our faith," but also sharing our lives - failures and successes, disobedience and obedience.

Anonymous

#30. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Henry David Thoreau

#31. Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

George Muller

#32. Not that the study is not important. A Jewish rabbi I once studies with would often say, 'For us Jews studying the bible is more important than obeying it because if you don't understand it rightly you will obey it wrongly and your obedience will be disobedience.

This is also true.

Eugene H. Peterson

#33. In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.

Max Anders

#34. There is nothing in the world or the Church - except the church's disobedience - to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.

Robert Speer

#35. Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience.

Saadi