Quotes About Disobeying God

#1. How far must a Christian go in order to be saved? Only to the Cross. But if I am disobeying God in my life and cast off His law, it is an absolute declaration of the fact that within my heart I have abandoned worship at the Cross.

Alan Redpath

#2. By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves,

Ann Druyan

#3. But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor?

Guy De Maupassant

#4. When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.

Samuel Butler

#5. The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be.

Winston Churchill

#6. Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For
once, I couldn't take advice from anyone around me about what I should or
shouldn't do. I couldn't go running to mum and dad and I can't compare my
marriage to anybody else's, we all follow our own rules.

Cecelia Ahern

#7. God, it drives me crazy when I know exactly what I want and I can't find it anywhere! It's like does anybody want my money!? I mean what the fuck!?

Daniel Clowes

#8. O you, who spends his lifetime disobeying his Lord, no one amongst your enemies is wicked to you more than you are to yourself

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#9. If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go?

Hudson Taylor

#10. I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

C.S. Lewis

#11. Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.

Sinclair Lewis

#12. Whenever the civil government forbids the practice of things that God has commanded us to do, or tells us to do things He has commanded us not to do, then we are on solid ground in disobeying the government and rebelling against it.

Pat Robertson

#13. If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. Let's face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.

Sue Grafton

#15. there are times when a truly remarkable soldier must resort to unorthodox behavior, disobeying his superiors to gain the greater glory.

William Manchester

#16. If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.

Simone Weil

#17. She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.

Elisabeth Elliot

#18. The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him.

Randy Alcorn

#19. He sat where he was, on Mouse, in the grip of terrible indecision. He almost wished something would happen - a sudden attack of Mexicans or something. He might be killed, but at least he wouldn't have to make a choice between disobeying Mr. Gus and disobeying Lorena.

Larry McMurtry

#20. But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do
remember that
and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade. And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

Herman Melville

#21. The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

Gerhard Schroder

#23. And I'll be a witch in hell before I let someone hurt my dogs.

Barbra Annino

#24. Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#25. I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#26. I never considered disobeying an order or even a request from Daddy. I loved and admired him, and one of my preeminent goals in life was to earn his approbation. I learned to expect his criticisms, always constructive, but his accolades were rare. My

Jimmy Carter

#27. Lafayette, on the other hand, was more of a make-your-own-destiny type of fellow, disobeying orders from the king and abandoning a pregnant girl for an entirely optional adventure.

Sarah Vowell

#28. Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Blaise Pascal

#29. Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

George R R Martin

#30. Our tendency today is to assume that we can eliminate the authority of husband over wife and yet retain the authority of husband-wife over the children. The Bible is more realistic about marriage than modern man, for the truth is that in disobeying the one hierarchy we destroy the other.

Charles F. Stanley

#31. By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.

Bryant McGill

#32. The greatest judgment God can send on His people is letting them have their own way.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#33. Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.

Charles Kingsley

#34. The baby boom eventually prompted Hubbard to order that no one could get pregnant without his permission; according to several Sea Org members, any woman disobeying his command would be "off-loaded" to another Scientology organization or flown to New York for an abortion.

Lawrence Wright

#35. By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.

Thomas Szasz

#36. It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said.
She laughed. 'Really?'
The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just something we tell ourselves.

Iain M. Banks

#37. It takes no talent to be sad. And you know how talented I am.

Damien D'Enfer

#38. I fear one thing most of all which is stupidity.

Nikola Popovic