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• I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Girl, Home, Years

  Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.133, Macmillan

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• Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.

  Oswald Chambers

  Stars, Lasts, Sand

  "Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year".

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• It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Loyalty, Lying, Order

  Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.275, Broadway Books

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• The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Life Is, Discipleship

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.266, Discovery House

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• ...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.

  Mark Helprin

  Perfect, Joy, Balance

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Responsibility, Law, Punishment

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “The Dispossessed”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the law of grace. In our effort to combat legalism we land ourselves in the worst kind of legalism. The only way of overcoming this legalism is by real obedience to Christ when he calls us to follow him; for in Jesus the law is at once fulfilled and cancelled.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Real, Struggle

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• [I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

  Adam Johnson

  Dog, Socialism, Communism

  Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.136, Random House

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• Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her. If anyone had asked her what she meant by integrity she would not have been able to tell them but she had seen it once like a picture in her mind, a root going down into the earth and drinking deeply there. No one was really alive without that root.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Integrity, Drinking, Roots

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• If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of effort and to remain curiously indifferent as to the results.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spiritual, Men, Effort

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• There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Pure

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, 2007.

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• A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

  Naomi Wolf

  Bad Ass, Mad, Political

  "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women". Book by Naomi Wolf, 1990.

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• In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who strive to bring their own freedom under obedience to His divine purpose. All that is done by the will of God in secret is done for His glory and for the good of those whom He has chosen to share in His glory.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Order, Evil

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment. Wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of almighty God. Not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Selfish, Mean, Destiny

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• Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Real, Yoga

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• Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the primary, primary again. The secondary activity of obedience to the law of God was always intended to serve the primary activity: to love God and enjoy Him forever. When that is primary, the secondary becomes a labor of love, a joyful, and "easy" burden to bear. (Matthew 11:28-30

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jesus, Law, Broken

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Jesus: The Greatest Life of All”, p.84, Thomas Nelson

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• Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God .

  Timothy Keller

  Father, Mean, Son

  "The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith".

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• It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.

  Charles Colson

  Healing, Self, Achievement

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.25, Zondervan

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• A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ideas, Slavery, Belief

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• ...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

  Andy Stanley

  Giving, Comfort, Careless

  Andy Stanley (2015). “Fields of Gold”, p.23, NavPress

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• Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

  Aristotle

  Self, Nicomachean Ethics

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• the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Liberty, May

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• A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER

  Darynda Jones

  Waiting, Poverty, Bumper Sticker

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.904, St. Martin's Press

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• Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Holiness, God Love

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1495, Barbour Publishing

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• Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

  Trudi Canavan

  Slave, Uneducated, Pathetic

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