Obedience Quotes - Page 10

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

Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.

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.

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

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.

If we knew how often the obedience of others is affected by our own, and how often our stepping forth soon brings forth a whole platton of helpers, and how often our speaking forth soon creates a chorus - we would be even more ashamed of our slackess and our silence.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.

God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection.

Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

God gives us resources according to our dreams and according to our obedience. And God doesn't give those resources until we've started walking in obedience.

God is worthy of my loving obedience because of who He is, not because of what he does.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

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.

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

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

Success is not a pursuit...but the result of obedience to the Divien and Natural laws of Life established by the Creator

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.