Obedient Children Quotes

#1. Some of the sweetest spirits are housed in frail frames. Great spiritual strength is often developed by those with physical challenges precisely because they are challenged. Such individuals are entitled to all the blessings that God has in store for His faithful and obedient children.

Russell M. Nelson

#2. Obedience allows God's blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.

Russell M. Nelson

#3. There should be a sex-related metric with which you could measure sex in hotels, especially the illicit variety, but of what would that metric consist? How about increments of remorse?

Rick Moody

#4. It was usual to be obedient to authority, to obey a legal letter. But Rachaela left her bills
unpaid until the threats began. She ignored the money-envelopes stuck through the door for starving
children and the sick.

Tanith Lee

#5. Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time ...

J.M. Barrie

#6. Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as He.

Cecil Frances Alexander

#7. The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound, its humility the deepest, its power world-shaking, its love enveloping, its simplicity that of a trusting child.

Thomas Raymond Kelly

#8. The first thing I am is a person. I am a woman. And I am part of a nation, the Indian nation. But people either relate to you as an Indian or as a woman. They relate to you as a category. A lot of people don't realize that I am not that different from everyone else.

Winona LaDuke

#9. It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

Hermann Maier

#10. They keep telling me the coolest people are crazy - so I'm not worried.

Zanib Mian

#11. I don't really like vegetables. But I'll eat them.

Miranda Lambert

#12. In the process of being metabolized, sugar robs your body of valuable nutrients ... Sugar also inhibits your liver's production of enzymes needed in the detoxification process.

Ann Louise Gittleman

#13. Only God, no other kings!

John Ashcroft

#14. After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they'd actually made some sort of choice.

Tom Perrotta

#15. Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.

Richard Brautigan

#16. I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.

Vanna White

#17. New Age eccentricity could only take you so far before you wandered into mentally ill territory.

M.M. McLaughlin

#18. If I knew more, I wouldn't talk so much.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#19. The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option

James Patterson

#20. His voice in my ear. It did interesting things to me. It curved my back and parted my lips. I felt lazy and feline, and he wasn't even in the room.

Helen Oyeyemi

#21. A child who is disciplined will be more obedient and also more organized as a student.

Bill Cosby

#22. A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.

Neal A. Maxwell

#23. All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction.

James E. Faust

#24. Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

Thomas Szasz

#25. I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.

Barry Zito

#26. Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects.

Jean Baudrillard

#27. Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

Thomas Paine