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Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.

The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity.

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

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

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.

The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.

The possession of a true testimony is the most valuable possession that one could have. It gives one knowledge, the hope and assurance that one, through obedience, can be a partaker of all the promised blessings.

The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.

There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience.

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 violence of our time is caused by 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.

Those who know the least obey the best.

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

Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental.

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

True obedience is true freedom.

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

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

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.

When love firmly settles in the heart, the limbs will only act in obedience to Allah.

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

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

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend.

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.

You don’t obey your way into faith (the Pharisees proved that); you believe your way into obedience.

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.