Quotes About Fear And Obedience

#1. The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. 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

#3. All those people who rejected me gave me a head-start on freedom, because the fear and obedience we are all taught, well, those things weren't getting me any love.

Ariel Gore

#4. After ten years of slavery, Arin knew obedience in its many forms. The fear of pain, the gritty promise to oneself of vengeance. Hopelessness. A grinding monotony broken just often enough by the strap or fist.

Marie Rutkoski

#5. Obedience isn't a lack of fear. It's just doing it scared.

Jen Hatmaker

#6. Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

Friedrich Schiller

#7. If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

D. A. Carson

#8. Obedience and humility require courage and strength of character. Weakness and fear cause one to fall back on his or her pride, which results in a vicious cycle

Sienna McQuillen

#9. Love withers under constraints. Its very essence is liberty; it is comparable neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear; it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries are in confidence, equality and unreserve.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#10. In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#11. Jesus enters the garden, in preparation, intending to face his fears by facing his God, his Father, His greatest fear is to offend his Father, to disobey his own calling, its integrity, and the word of God on his life.

Megan McKenna

#12. The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.

Antony Flew

#13. The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#14. There was a time when people valued honor and loyalty - when serving a ruler wasn't about obedience and fear.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

Jack London

#16. Welcome Beauty, banish fear, You are queen and mistress here. Speak your wishes, speak your will, Swift obedience meets them still.

Ludwig Bechstein

#17. The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security ... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.

Baruch Spinoza

#18. Fear can force obedience, but it can never transform a heart.

Stacey Jay

#19. Both fear and love might cause obedience, but only love causes joy.

Jefferson Bethke

#20. I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

Gerald Stern

#21. Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.

Criss Jami

#22. True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

Dorothy Day

#23. When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward a simple, bold obedience.

Edward T. Welch

#24. The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

Saint Francis De Sales

#25. Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Terry Pratchett

#26. The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.

Hugh Kingsmill

#27. Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of rejection isn't just psychological; it's biological. It's in our cells.

Steven Pressfield

#28. When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.

Toni Morrison

#29. If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.

Thomas Hobbes

#30. Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all.

Thomas Of Villanova

#31. Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.

Carlton D. Pearson

#32. What does it mean to fear the Lord? It means to have awe and reverence for him. The woman who fears the Lord obeys from a heart of love for the God of the universe, who is also her heavenly Father! Her childlike fear of her heavenly Father leads her to faithful and faith-filled obedience.

Kimberly Hahn

#33. Ultimately we have nothing to fear. Jesus loves us, and he invites us to be confident in that love. As we seek to obey Him, we are not called to assess the risk involved and determine whether or not obedience will be beneficial or safe for us. We are simply called to trust and obey.

Dan Baumann

#34. The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#35. Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

George Bernard Shaw

#36. My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.

David Platt

#37. So it has reached this pass? Obedience and fear take flight together?

Friedrich Schiller