Best 469 quotes in «obedience quotes» category

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.

Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.

Never take biblical interpretation lightly. Never assume you've arrived or learned all that you can. Be a lifelong learner, but always apply what you're learning to yourself in real-life situations. Accurate interpretation is meant to lead to 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.

No master can make me swear blind obedience.

No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.

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

Obedience to the Lord is not only measured by how much we do for our Savior, but by how we obey Him when nobody is looking.

Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

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

Obedience is your responsibility, the outcome is God's!

Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience.

Obedience is a hard profession.

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

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

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Our problem is civil obedience

Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Sincere love is not as a result of emotional surges - it’s a result of obedience to the Truth.

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.

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

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.

Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.