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• Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

  Howard Zinn

  Inspirational, Death, Running

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• Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

  Aristotle

  Love, Inspirational, Heartbreak

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• Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Foundation, Fountain

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.205, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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

  Phillips Brooks

  Loyalty, Flower, Men

  Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.

  William Shakespeare

  Doctrine

  William Shakespeare (1994). “The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra”, p.304, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Resist much, obey little.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Use

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 16, 2014

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• Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.

  Jack Hyles

  Bible, God, Christian

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• It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path.

  Katharine Drexel

  God, Faith, Christian

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• We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

  Pope Clement I

  God, Christian, Letting Go

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• Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

  Anthony of Padua

  God, Christian, Religious

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• If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!

  Rand Paul

  Home, Government, Term Limits

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Feb 13, 2013

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• If ye love me keep my commandments

  Robert D. Hales

  Love, Order, Law

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• In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mean, Government, Order

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.273, OUP Oxford

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• I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Men, Order

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• It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  God, Death, Christian

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (1820). “The Life and Religious Experience of the Celebrated Lady Guion”, p.63

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• Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Suggestions, Virtue

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• All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

  John Calvin

  Knowledge Of God, Born, True Knowledge

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• Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Good Intentions, Intention, Substitutes

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• This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync with God is about obedience. Any other pursuit will get in the way.

  Franklin Graham

  God, Christian, Jesus

  Franklin Graham (1998). “Living beyond the limits : a life in sync with God”

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• A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Strong, Prayer

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• I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

  Teresa of Avila

  Power, Possible And Impossible, Catholic

  St. Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Interior Castle: or the Mansions”, p.29, TAN Books

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• The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.

  Sheldon Richman

  Pain, Organization, Political

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• There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

  Simone Weil

  Loyalty, Spring, Law

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.127, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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