Obedience Quotes

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

Annie Dillard

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Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom.

Timothy D. Snyder

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The great test of life is obedience to God.

Ezra Taft Benson

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Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

Charles Studd

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Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Theodore Roosevelt

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He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.

Saint Ignatius

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Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

Bai Ling

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In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

John Bradshaw

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God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.

John Piper

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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

Jonathan Mayhew

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The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Augustus Hare

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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Noam Chomsky

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When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

Ezra Taft Benson

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Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

Charles Spurgeon

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All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel.

Jakob Bohme

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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Saint Teresa of Avila

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I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.

John Quincy Adams

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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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I took obedience, agility, and shepherding with my dog.

Annaleigh Ashford

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I can assure the Marquis de Chasteler that it is my unalterable determination never to set foot on any territory which acknowledges obedience to His Majesty the King of Bohemia and Hungary.

Marquis de Lafayette

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Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

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Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

Buddha

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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Havelock Ellis

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