Top 100 Quotes About Obedience
#1. Patience is ... clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.
Neal A. Maxwell
#2. A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Nadia Boulanger
#3. We accept the Lord Jesus by faith, and He teaches us obedience, creating it in us. The more faith in Him that we have, the more obedience to Him we will manifest.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#4. No." John Newton's eyes warmed. "One has no guarantee that the path the Lords places us on will be the easy one, Elizabeth. Obedience to His will is a glorious thing, but, aye, it has many challenges. Yet," and he smiled fully, "in the end, no one can doubt that it is the best way.
Alicia A. Willis
#5. Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.
Rick Warren
#6. Theology is an assault on the sin-distorted intellect; it is the obedience penetrating the realm of thought.
Emil Brunner
#7. Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#8. True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.
J.D. Greear
#9. Like Abraham, parents should command their households after them. Let obedience to [143] parental authority be taught and enforced as the first step in obedience to the authority of God.
Ellen G. White
#10. Replace a goal of obedience with one of connection and trust instead. Children are drawn to follow those to whom they are emotionally connected. By parenting not for obedience but for relationship, kids are naturally inclined to follow your lead.
Kelly Bartlett
#11. On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#12. The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.
Thomas A Kempis
#14. Moreover, a Republic trusting to her own forces, is with greater difficulty than one which relies on foreign arms brought to yield obedience to a single citizen. Rome and Sparta remained for ages armed and free. The Swiss are at once the best armed and the freest people in the world.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#15. The ordinary is not good enough for us; our hubris wants something grandiose. But the ordinary done in obedience to Christ is beautiful, inspired, and oftentimes heroic.
Edward T. Welch
#17. If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.
Martin Luther
#18. Obedience isn't a lack of fear. It's just doing it scared.
Jen Hatmaker
#19. Hers was a tone and manner that assured the listener they had only two choices; obedience or death.
Loretta Chase
#20. A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
C.S. Lewis
#21. It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.
Timothy B. Tyson
#22. To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.
Randy Alcorn
#23. Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.
Paul Tillich
#24. A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.
Simone Weil
#25. When people say that they can only obey an authority in which they have total confidence, they are looking for an ideal father. . . . If the condition of obedience is emotional trust, the way is open to anarchy and the possible death of the community.
Jean Vanier
#26. Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
Bruno Bettelheim
#27. Obedience seems to be "proof" of sorts that we do indeed love Jesus.
Donovan Graham
#28. [T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#29. Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
Bell Hooks
#30. A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.
Abhijit Naskar
#31. If we are not being moved in heart and moved to new places in life - new levels of obedience to God - we are not really reading the Bible the way God wants us to.
George H. Guthrie
#32. 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
#33. A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
Patrick Henry
#35. Obedience to authority saves many skins
Sophocles
#36. His kingdom come! For this we pray in vain,
Unless He does in our affections reign.
How fond it were to wish for such a King,
And no obedience to his sceptre bring,
Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light;
His service freedom, and His judgments right.
Edmund Waller
#37. Our love for Christ is more important to Him than all of our service to Him. Strict obedience and serveice are not enough. Love for Jesus must come first.
Anne Graham Lotz
#38. The genius of stable societies is that they achieve stability without stagnation, repetition without monotony, conformity with originality, obedience with liberty.
Hugh Nibley
#39. Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.
L. Tom Perry
#40. It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.
Thomas A Kempis
#42. The wife's submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband.
Steve Pearce
#43. The European generally submits to a public officer because he represents a superior force; but to an American he represents a right. In America it may be said that no one renders obedience to man, but to justice and to law.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#44. Tarkin thought of himself as the product of a military upbringing, in which discipline, respect, and obedience were held in the highest regard.
John Jackson Miller
#45. The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.
Martin Luther
#46. Faith and character are intimately related. Faith in the power of obedience to the commandments of God will forge strength of character available to you in times of urgent need.
Richard G. Scott
#47. We're seeing an explosion in new approaches, new models and new forms of interaction. This growth comes from change, insight and exploration, not obedience.
Seth Godin
#48. If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it costs those who do not love Him a good deal.
Oswald Chambers
#49. There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.
Ichabod Spencer
#50. What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
Henry David Thoreau
#51. The Empire's got something worse than whips all right. It's got obedience. Whips in the soul. They obey anyone who tells them what to do. Freedom just means being told what to do by someone different.
Terry Pratchett
#52. In precisely the same way the specialty of government is not to obey, but to enforce obedience. And a government is only a government so long as it can make itself obeyed, and therefore it always strives for that and will never willingly abandon its power.
Leo Tolstoy
#53. There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
Martin Luther
#54. Storms are not punishment for lack of obedience; oftentimes they are the result of obedience!
David Jeremiah
#55. Obedience is the pathway to blessing. It's the means of protection. It's the means of joy. It's the means to finding God's best in our lives.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#57. Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.
Ayn Rand
#58. Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.
Matthew Henry
#59. God is worthy of my loving obedience because of who He is, not because of what he does.
Jerry Bridges
#60. If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.
Lysander Spooner
#61. The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
Robert Anton Wilson
#62. CHRIST'S LIFE ILLUSTRATES PLAINLY THAT THE CROWN OF VICTORY IS FORGED FROM THE GOLD OF OBEDIENCE.
Calvin Miller
#63. What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Havelock Ellis
#64. She would, through habit, have yielded to his desire; not with any sense of submission or obedience to his compelling wishes, but unthinkingly, as we walk, move, sit, stand, go through the daily treadmill of the life which has been portioned out to us.
Kate Chopin
#65. The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience to him as their creator, yet they could never have attained the reward of life but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.
Various
#66. One of the greatest fruits of obedience is bold confidence in prayer.
Karen Wheaton
#67. Obedience ... allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord.
Athos M. Amorim
#68. 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
#69. Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.
Martin Luther
#70. Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#72. Faith in Christ makes one a regenerated believer; obedience to the Holy Spirit makes him a spiritual believer.
Watchman Nee
#73. Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.
Phillips Brooks
#74. the vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.' The
Joe Abercrombie
#75. The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
Michel De Montaigne
#76. Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.
Thomas Carlyle
#77. It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.
Bell Hooks
#78. Taking the obedience of the soldier for the consent of the nation--such a confidence is the destruction of thrones.
Victor Hugo
#79. The choice, though, is not between scrupulous obedience and ecstatic abandon. The choice runs right down the middle. If you really want to know how to fly, you need to know how to walk.
Michael Lesy
#80. Community thus is obedience practiced together. The question is not simply, "Where does God lead me as an individual person who tries to do his will?" More basic and more significant is the question, "Where does God lead us as a people?" This
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#81. The spirit of quarrelsome comradeship which he had observed lately in his rival had not seduced Stephen from his habits of quiet obedience. He mistrusted the turbulence and doubted the sincerity of such comradeship which seemed to him a sorry anticipation of manhood.
James Joyce
#82. Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.
Hannah Arendt
#83. True knowledge of God and of the secret of his wisdom comes from faith, because the obedience of faith opens to us the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven.
John Calvin
#84. Being spanked is the ultimate obedience, the final pleasure. It is life on the highwire.
Chloe Thurlow
#85. Prioritizing obedience in the face of stress is a wonderful way to disarm it.
Rachel Jankovic
#86. He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience.
Paul Washer
#87. Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
Mahatma Gandhi
#88. Even Christians taking in the teaching of the Bible can be deceived about our own sins. We somehow feel that consent to the teaching of scripture is equivalent to obedience.
Jerry Bridges
#89. I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.
Jamaica Kincaid
#90. What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.
Vladimir Putin
#91. All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.
William Godwin
#92. Our identity as the people of God is marked primarily by our faithfulness in obedience to Him.
Max Anders
#93. Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
Watchman Nee
#94. Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
William Ames
#95. If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
Ulysses S. Grant
#97. The right to life of a woman should not be contingent on her obedience of social norms and traditions.A.Prasad(Venkat Seminar )
Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad
#98. So, here's the short version of my predetermined biblical procedure manual all in one place: Alarmed, I resolve to remember who I am. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Stay in the flow - my job is obedience; God's job is results. Shift from an attitude to gratitude. My reactions determine my reach.
Lysa TerKeurst
#99. Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.
Joyce Meyer
#100. The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.
Joseph Addison
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