Obedience Quotes - Page 11

• I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Resistance, Recognition, Revolutionary

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

  Augustus Hare

  Paganism, Good Christian, Christianity

  "Guesses at Truth" by Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, London: Macmillan, (p. 1), 1867.

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• A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

  Barbara Deming

  Moving, Great Men, Dissent

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• Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how God holds the kingdom in balance or why he moves a chess piece at a crucial time; we might never see the results of his sovereignty [...] I might just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm a part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Moving, Chess Pieces, Color

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.114, B&H Publishing Group

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• Through my obedience to God, He has been able to use my life to help others. It's been a great journey and I'm looking forward to all the things God has in the future.

  Joyce Meyer

  Helping Others, Journey, Use

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• If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it costs those who do not love Him a good deal.

  Oswald Chambers

  People, Doe, Cost

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.33, Discovery House

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

  Bell Hooks

  Romantic Love, Expression, Want

  Bell Hooks, Cornel West (1991). “Breaking bread: insurgent Black intellectual life”, South End Pr

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• [R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience extends over everything you do, giving each action inestimable value, even when things do not turn out as you wish.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Giving, Wish

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• Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.

  Charles Kimball

  Thinking, Evil, Inquiry

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• Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Loss, Giving, Culture

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.34, 谷月社

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• Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.

  Andrew Linzey

  Beauty, Education, Creativity

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• Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

  Terry Pratchett

  Weed, Fear, Lines

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• Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Religious, Believe, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8184, Delphi Classics

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

  Herman Melville

  Peril, Command, Needles

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.114

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• Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Voice, Discipline

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• I believe that the fewer the laws in a home the better; but there is one law which should be as plainly understood as the shining of the sun is visible at noonday, and that is, implicit and instantaneous obedience from the child to the parent, not only for the peace of the home, but for the highest good of the child.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Children, Believe, Home

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• Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.

  John Piper

  Roots, Grace, Cost

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• The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith - which He has given - and then push it open and walk through.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Keys, Doors, Delight

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• Holy obedience confounds all bodily and fleshly desires and keeps the body mortified to the obedience of the spirit and to the obedience of one's brother and makes a man subject to all the
  men of this world and not to men alone, but also to all beasts and wild animals, so that they may do with him whatsoever they will, in so far as it may be granted to them from above by the
  Lord.

  Francis of Assisi

  Brother, Animal, Men

  Saint Francis of Assisi, Aeterna Press (1906). “Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi”, p.30, Aeterna Press

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• It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

  Kamisese Mara

  Leadership, Government, Finals

  Letter to President Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, en.wikiquote.org. December 5, 1987.

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• Faith is obedience, not compliance.

  George MacDonald

  Faith, Compliance

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• The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Acceptance, Punishment, Self

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1974). “Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook”, Tarcher

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• Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

  William Penn

  Life, Law, Justice

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• The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

  Jean Cocteau

  Order, Joy, Youth

  "Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists". Book by James Geary (p. 271), 2007.

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• Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subordination to our superiors, and grateful dependents on heaven; by this we become fonder of marriage, in order to be capable of exacting obedience from others in our turn; by this we become good magistrates, for early submission is the truest lesson to those who would learn to rule. By this the whole state may be said to resemble one family.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Grateful, Order, Heaven

  Oliver Goldsmith (1857). “Miscellaneous Works Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected by James Prior”, p.176

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