Top 25 Obedience Quotes of 270 - Page 6

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

John Rawls

Justice, Reform, Obedience

John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.59, Harvard University Press

He who cannot obey cannot command.

Jack Hyles

Obedience, Command

God will always make a way where there is no way.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Way, Obedience, Gods Will

Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

Faith is obedience, not compliance.

George MacDonald

Faith, Obedience, Compliance

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Resistance, Slave, Obedience

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.54, e-artnow

What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!

Floyd McClung

Grace, Doe, Obedience

Obedience is less painful than regret.

Christine Caine

Regret, Painful, Obedience

FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Nov 08, 2016

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Blaise Pascal

Obedience, Should, Strongest

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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

Andy Stanley

Giving, Comfort, Obedience

Andy Stanley (2015). “Fields of Gold”, p.23, NavPress

Love is the foundation of all obedience.

Alexander MacLaren

Love Is, Foundation, Obedience

Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.

William Shakespeare

Doctrine, Obedience

William Shakespeare (1994). “The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra”, p.304, Oxford University Press, USA

Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

Thomas Watson

Eye, Feet, Obedience

"A Body of Practical Divinity in a Series of Sermons on the Shorter Catechism".

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

Thomas Carlyle

Woe, Obedience, Claims

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.228, Lulu.com

A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

Simone Weil

Pharisees, Beast, Obedience

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.169, Psychology Press

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

Phillips Brooks

Understanding, Obedience

Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

Phillips Brooks

Faith, Demand, Obedience

Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.72

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, People, Obedience

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

John McAfee

Progress, Vehicle, Disobedience

Twitter post from Jun 15, 2015

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Law, Liberty, Obedience

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

Hosea Ballou

Law, Obedience, Social

Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.

Francis Quarles

Kings, Obedience, Highways

Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions.

Francis Quarles

Religious, Action, Obedience

Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.85