Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.
Whenever the conviction of God's Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.
The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.
Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.
Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.