Obedience Quotes - Page 14

• The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Men, Quality

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.360, Stanford University Press

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• Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Coward, Weak

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• 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.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Law, Evil, Overcoming

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• The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Men, Perfect

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• The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others. Every kind of character flaw comes from this natural impulse to be our own saviour through our own performance and achievement. On the one hand, proud and disdainful personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are succeeding. But on the other hand, discouraged and self loathing personalities also come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are failing.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Lying, Character

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• Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Army, Order, Law

  Daniel Berrigan (2009). “The Nightmare of God: The Book of Revelation”, p.22, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is well known that obedience is the chief among the initiatory virtues, for first it displaces presumption and then it engenders humility within us. Thus it becomes, for those who willingly embrace it, a door leading to the love of God? Thus humility should be the first concern of those who are fighting against the presumption of the devil, for as we advance it will be a sure guide to all the paths of virtue.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Christian, Humility, Fighting

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• 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.

  William Wilberforce

  Christian, Children, Submissive

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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• At the beginning, all we have is the vision. At that point God expects us to begin walking in obedience according to the dream He has given us.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Vision, Given

  "Turning Vision Into Reality". Enrichment Interview, enrichmentjournal.ag.org. January 2000.

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving, Vision, Needs

  "Turning Vision Into Reality". Enrichment Interview, enrichmentjournal.ag.org. January 2000.

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• 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.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Giving, Resources

  "Turning Vision Into Reality". Enrichment Interview, enrichmentjournal.ag.org. January 2000.

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• For pastors who have a dream and who are walking in obedience but still don't have the resources they need, don't worry. Keep walking in obedience.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Worry, Needs

  "Turning Vision Into Reality". Enrichment Interview, enrichmentjournal.ag.org. January 2000.

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• I hope my music can minister to others and bring their hearts closer to God. It has been a different journey of faith and obedience and I am proud to give my time, treasure and talent to the Almighty.

  Jonathan Cain

  Heart, Journey, Giving

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

  Howard Zinn

  Violence, Our Time

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• Scripture teaches us that we should trust God and not lean on our own wisdom or understanding. To do this, we have to strive to know God intimately, walking by faith and not by sight. This may not be easy at first, but it starts with simple obedience.

  Craig Groeschel

  Simple, Sight, Understanding

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Obedience is our responsibility. The outcome is God's responsibility. As we learn to trust him with our future, trust him with those we love, trust him as our provider, and trust his sovereign plan, that gives us the foundation to step out in faith. We can trust that he'll always be faithful.

  Craig Groeschel

  Responsibility, Giving, Faithful

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• We need to be realistic and recognize that there will be times when we won't be sharing our faith out of an overwhelming sense of joy. When that happens, that's a call to look at our own devotional lives. Are we putting our hearts and minds before the Lord and under his cross everyday? Do we remind ourselves continually that we have been ransomed by the death of the Saviour? When we meditate on Christ's death for us, it doesn't mean that we never have struggles in our obedience, but it does help.

  Mark Dever

  Struggle, Heart, Mean

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Once we see more of our need and understand more of what Christ has done for us, he will become more precious to us. And this, in turn, will enable our obedience far more than sheer grunt effort.

  Mark Dever

  Effort, Needs, Done

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Let's say that you want to do everything out of the joy that comes from knowing the Lord. Well, a lot of people aren't built like that emotionally. If they think that some sort of feeling is the basis for their action, they are going to feel justified sitting around, although they are going to feel bad that they have never taken one step of obedience because their heart is cold.

  Mark Dever

  Taken, Heart, Thinking

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Army, Compassion

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Andorrans deserve much better than the rule of superstitious hysterics and extreme authoritarians, who try to instill obedience to their Holy Texts and chosen Divinities - and we should not fail to see that the terms are appropriate, if anything too kind.

  Noam Chomsky

  Trying, Divinity, Kind

  Source: chomsky.info

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• International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience otherwise the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders and it can spread to important places.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Order, Ideas

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college. When I hear some of that, I think that is not who I am, he doesn't know me or what I teach. I always talk about God rewards obedience. When you follow His way, the Bible says that His blessings will chase you down and overtake you.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Those who have had the most impact and influence throughout history and certainly the people who've had the most impact and influence on me personally have been basically entirely unaware of any such influence and made their chief concern their personal devotion and obedience, and the pleasure of God in the hidden things of their lives.

  Brooke Fraser

  People, Influence, Devotion

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Millions of people are getting the vote, and we have to educate them to keep them from our throats. In other words, we have to train them in obedience and servility, so they're not going to think through the way the world works and come after our throats.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, People, World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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