God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience.
Obedience Quotes (212 Quotes)
I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.
I hourly learn
A doctrine of obedience, and would gladly
Look him i' th' face.
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
My way of life
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf,
And that which should accompany old age,
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; but in their stead,
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not.
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
Obedience is the fruit of faith.
He is gone, but his shadow still stands over all of us. It still dictates to us and we, very often, obey.
If the Security Council decides to take decisions that are not within its competence, then Iran does not feel obliged to obey.
Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us
It is not easy to be a nun. It is a life of sacrifice and self-abnegation. It is a life against nature. Poverty, chastity and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.
I would not like a king who could obey.
Will corporal punishment help restrain criminal behavior Some well-intentioned experts say no. But one group that disagrees with these experts is the criminals themselves. Criminals know that punishment works, and they use it every day all over America. Criminals demand absolute obedience, and if corporal punishment doesn't work, then they will use capital punishment, for they know that the fear of death is the best deterrent for disobedience. Even the experts tell us that when being attacked by a criminal, obey him because to resist may bring even more punishment. So does punishment work It sure does. The problem is the wrong people are being punished.
Obedience is a word and concept from which the valiant look for their deliverance.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
I have never, on the field of battle, sent you where I was unwilling to go myself nor would I advise to go a course which I myself was unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers you can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the Government to which you have surrendered can afford to be, and will be, magnanimous.
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
The Gospel of Judas turns Judas' act of betrayal into an act of obedience. The sacrifice of Jesus' body of flesh in fact becomes saving. And so for that reason, Judas emerges as the champion and he ends up being envied and even cursed and resented by the other disciples.
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.
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
Companies that choose to enter the market in the future will face the same struggle to effectively balance what they believe which laws they must obey.
Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.
In these days of uncertainty and unrest, liberty-loving peoples greatest responsibility and paramount duty is to preserve and proclaim the freedom of the individual, his relationship to deity, and the necessity of obedience to the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Only thus will mankind find peace and happiness.
There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.
Obedience without faith is possible, but not faith without obedience.
Be not impatient in delay,But wait as one who understandsWhen spirit rises and commands,The gods are ready to obey.
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Paul, using the examples of differing opinions about food and days among the believers in Rome, teaches that Christians should not despise or judge others. He does not advise them to find a happy medium between the contending opinions or to average the two extremes in a compromise. On the contrary, he admonished them that 'every one be fully convinced in his own mind' (Rom. 145), because God is able to make both stand, as both of them are serving the Lord in obedience to their individual convictions of His will.... Each of us has to find personally what is the will of God for his own life, and let all others meet their responsibility to do the same.... For God, by giving different commands to many, and putting them together according to His plan, shall accomplish ultimately His complete will.
Drive safe. Obey the speed limit signs. We do all we can to keep it safe they should try to make it safe for us.
The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance. . .
As the Master Wills Slowly, through all the universe, the temple of God is being built. Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of Gods likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone. When, in your hard fight, in your tiresome drudgery, or in your terrible temptation, you catch the purpose of your being, and give yourself to God, and so give Him the chance to give Himself to you, your life, a living stone, is taken up and set into that growing wall. Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely waysthere God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. Oh, if the stone can only have some vision of the temple of which it is to be a part forever, what patience must fill it as it feels the blows of the hammer, and knows that success for it is simply to let itself be wrought into what shape the Master wills.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics that their particles have been moved, moulded and conformed. They are no exceptions to the rule that God always geometrizes. Their problems of form are in the first instance mathematical problems, their problems of growth are essentially physical problems, and the morphologist is, ipso facto, a student of physical science.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order - never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request.
You will notice that the work is simple obedience. It is not complicated things, it is not fancy things or getting great spiritual manifestations. This work is within the abilities of the most humble and the least educated.
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.
In a subcommittee hearing Thursday, Rep. David Obey, D-Wisconsin, warned White House budget director Mitch Daniels No information, no money. ... severe attitude problem.
When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.