Top 31 Quotes About Being Obedient
#1. We were promised that we would have Jehovah, Jesus Christ, as our Savior and Redeemer. He would assure that we would all be resurrected. And He would make it possible for us to pass the test of life if we exercised faith in Him by being obedient.
Henry B. Eyring
#2. 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
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#3. There is nothing admirable about being obedient to a system that doesn't serve you. The present system we endure day in, day out is designed to turn us against each other while a minority of people get rich off our backs, destroying the planet in the process.
Rupert Dreyfus
#4. The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was ... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain.
Joseph Prince
#5. The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#6. Are you being obedient, or just martyring yourself for another good cause?
Janine Mendenhall
#7. You are a natural submissive, Monica. You enjoy being obedient. You cede control with both hands. It's exactly right.
C.D. Reiss
#8. The only true satisfaction we can seek is the satisfaction of being obedient to the Lord.
Lysa TerKeurst
#9. From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.
Adolf Eichmann
#10. There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.
R.D. Laing
#11. The Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear God.
Irenaeus Of Lyons
#12. Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.
Adolf Eichmann
#13. You like it dirty; I do too. Be filthy; beg me for it. Be a complete cock whore."
"You like being forced to just lay there and wait for me. I like it too. You look so good all open and ready for my cock. Just being still and obedient like a good little cock whore.
Kele Moon
#14. It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.
Mary McCarthy
#15. In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.
Anne Graham Lotz
#16. What is wrong with being a devout follower? Is it not acceptable to be sad and alone, if you remain loyal and obedient?
S.E. Lindberg
#17. It's worse now because before I had 16 Republican, conservative people and the media had their favorite but they didn't particularly love anybody. Now it's myself really against the media.
Donald Trump
#18. Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.
Diana Wynne Jones
#19. To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.
Tim Lebbon
#21. You can't walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don't want it now or ever again. Don't want to hear the word or wear its scars.
Ellen Hopkins
#22. In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.
Henri Nouwen
#23. Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things.
Charles Spurgeon
#24. 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
#25. I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.
Marsha Norman
#26. Just being an obedient Christian is increasingly becoming a social, political, legal issue ...
John Piper
#27. Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.
Linus Torvalds
#28. You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is, his ingenuity, his resourcefulness.
Stephen R. Covey
#29. The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him.
Charles Stanley
#30. Women receive messages from childhood that they may be rewarded and protected for maintaining a childlike comportment such as being demure, obedient, passive and subservient.
Bryant McGill
#31. [this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it
Aristotle.
