John Ruskin Quotes About Obedience

Quotes about: Obedience

• Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

  John Ruskin

  Devil, Chance, Obedience

• Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

  John Ruskin

  Freedom, Perfect, May

• Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

  John Ruskin

  Perfect, May, Energy

  John Ruskin (1866). “The seven lamps of architecture”, p.166

• God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.

  John Ruskin

  God, Hurt, Law

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.37

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