Obedience Quotations

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.

Those who know the least obey the best.

I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.

The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.

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.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God.

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Obedience opens the door to the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. And the spiritual gifts and abilities activated by the power of the Holy Ghost enable us to avoid deception - and to see, to feel, to know, to understand, and to remember things as they really are.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.

Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.

God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.

Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you find that more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

When we demonstrate our faith in God by our obedience, He not only promises to provide for us, He will provide.

We'll be giving people obedience tips for their dogs and how to get their puppies started properly.

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.

There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.

Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

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.

When He withholds an answer, it is to have us grow through faith in Him, obedience to His commandments, and a willingness to act on truth.

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.

Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

Lots of people make resolutions to try to spend more time with their dog, to try to take them to obedience class, to take them out for sports. It's the canine equivalent of promising that we're going to go out and exercise more ourselves, lose weight and be good and moral.

Legalism is to seek to achieve forgiveness from God and acceptance by God through my obedience to God.

One-on-one sessions can help if people don't have time for obedience classes. I can even train dogs if the owners aren't home, and that could be a real time-saver for people.

Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.

Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.

If we look at the nation that President Bush leads, it also behaves in many ways like an addict. The United States is a gigantic John Candy of a country, straining its oversized elasticated pants from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The country is addicted to more or less everything, constantly craving greater and greater quantities of petrol, electricity, pointless sports, empty patriotism, fatty hormone-crammed meat, gigantic pedestrian-crushing four-wheel drive trucks, ever more baseball caps with nonsense written on them and unquestioning obedience from every nation on the planet.

Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

Out of obedience to you and my mother I have grievously sinned. Now I willingly relinquish the crown. May I not go home?

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage.

The army... is now publicly declared to be for the purpose of enforcing obedience to the authority of Parliament.

We know that the people who took time to obtain the licenses are owners who take their dogs to obedience training and keep them in control.

Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.

You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.

We cannot distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or know what obedience we owe to the magistrate, or what we may justly expect from him, unless we know what he is, why he is, and by whom he is made to be what he is.... I cannot know how to obey unless I know in what, and to whom; nor in what unless I know what ought to be commanded; nor what ought to be commanded unless I understand the original right of the commander, which is the great arcanum.

One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.

Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

Love is the foundation of all obedience.

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

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'

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

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.

As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance

We must become a people who are in submission, that is, submitted completely to the mission of the Church, 'in statu missionis.' Thus, living fully within the mainstream of grace, under the mantle of God's divine authority, and by uniting ourselves to the obedience of Christ on the cross, we participate in the reversal of Adam's sin.

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones -- maybe only the stones -- understood.

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.

The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives them the power to establish laws is the same thing which secures obedience to them - organized violence.

He's amazing, really; he definitely has a gift. He never raises his voice; he never hits the animals. He doesn't just train dogs, like in obedience school; he rehabilitates them.

Germans trained in obedience and dedicated to moral whitewashing are not a new people, nor are they reliable partners for anyone else.

God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand.

Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.