Best 469 quotes in «obedience quotes» category

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

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

A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.

A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

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

Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.

Caring for God's endowment in a thrifty fashion is a form of biblical obedience.

Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

Every good servant does not all commands.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good.

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience...whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed...It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.

God gives us resources according to our dreams and according to our obedience. And God doesn't give those resources until we've started walking in obedience.

God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.

God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient.

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.

Grace does not lead us to overlook obedience. Grace compels and empowers us for obedience.

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.

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

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

In short, Christians in general are everywhere denominated the servants and the children of God, and are required to serve him with that submissive obedience, and that affectionate promptitude of duty, which belong to those endearing relations.

Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

If ye love me keep my commandments

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

I too believe that God will always make a way where there is no way. I believe that if we will walk in obedience to the commandments of God, if we will follow the counsel of the priesthood, he will open a way even where there appears to be no way.