Obedience Quotes

To have a dutiful family, the father's principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience.

William Cobbett

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

Edwin Louis Cole

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The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.

Lajos Kossuth

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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

Angelina Grimke

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Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Russell M. Nelson

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

Anthony de Mello

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Entire civilisation stands on submission and obedience of mother.

Shehbaz Sharif

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While salvation is a free gift, the 'winning Christ' can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a hardship, but the highest privilege.

Hudson Taylor

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Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence.

David A. Bednar

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What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.

Vladimir Putin

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Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Benjamin Franklin

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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

Ed Townsend

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Austin Farrer

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

George Whitefield

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The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

Charles Stanley

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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.

Theodor Mommsen

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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Ulysses S. Grant

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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.

B. F. Skinner

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There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Jim Mattis

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Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

John Taylor Gatto

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Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Joyce Meyer

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