Obedience Quotes - Page 17

• Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience.

  Steven Furtick

  God, Faith, Christian

  Twitter post from May 16, 2017

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• This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.

  Lauren Oliver

  Promise, Made, Oath

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• We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.

  David Platt

  Retirement, Taken, Eye

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• If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me, along with all the dear animals in nature who care for their young at great cost to themselves and have suffered so much at the hands of humans.

  Richard Rohr

  Loyalty, Unconditional Love, Animal

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self”, p.124, SPCK

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• You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.

  Brent Weeks

  Definitions, Said, Request

  Brent Weeks (2012). “The Blinding Knife: Book 2 of Lightbringer”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.

  Howard Zinn

  Loyalty, Country, Government

  Howard Zinn (1990). “Declarations of Independence: Cross-examining American Ideology”, Perennial

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• Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Use, May, Substitutes

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You learn by living”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Real, Godly, Men

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• But all I could see was her. No skill of mine, no artist anywhere, could’ve immortalized how gorgeous she was. It was impossible to believe she’d ever had any doubts about her body. The firelight shone on her skin, golden and perfect, making her look like some radiant goddess of legend. I wanted to kneel before her and offer eternal obedience.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe, Artist, Skills

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• In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

  Alice Miller

  Suicide, Bullying, Children

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• I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Fall, Yellow

  William Shakespeare “Macbeth”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Christian, Spring

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• He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

  Samuel Johnson

  Freedom, Democracy, Protection

  Thomas M. Curley, Samuel Johnson (1998). “Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson”, p.125, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.

  Klaus Balkenhol

  Motivational, Leadership, Differences

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• Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Passion, Learning

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.13, Routledge

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• The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Spring, Pleasure

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

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• Every time you open up your heart in obedience to God and worship Him with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul, our beautiful Lord responds with His magnificent presence.

  Darlene Zschech

  Beautiful, Heart, Soul

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• Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

  John Calvin

  Worship

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• Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Sea, Tyrants

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• My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Joy, Needs, Definitions

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• The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Leaving, Passing Away

  "The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay The Gospel of Wealth". Book by Andrew Carnegie, 2014.

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• How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food and drink, dress, beautifully furnished dwellings, and all attractive objects-how will it be, I say, when all these things leave us-when they will all seem to us a dream, and when works of faith and virtue, of abstinence, purity, meekness, humility, mercy, patience, obedience, and others will be required of us?

  John of Kronstadt

  Dream, Humility, Dwelling

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• The way of the gospel is a simple way. Some of the requirements may appear to you as elementary and unnecessary. Do not spurn them. Humble yourselves and walk in obedience. I promise that the results that follow will be marvelous to behold and satisfying to experience.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Humble, Humility, Simple

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• The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Religious, Mean, Men

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• The Lord Jesus died for the ungodly. He was obedient at all costs : He bore everything, and went down into the dust of death, man's hatred, God's desertion, and Satan's power ; we find Him there at the cost of everything. Everything that was against us was done away. By one man's obedience many are made righteous.

  John Nelson Darby

  Jesus, Men, Dust

  Walter Thomas Turpin, John Nelson Darby, Some Authors Unknown, W. H. Broom (2015). “The Christian's Friend and Instructor: Christian Magazine Volume 3, 1876 Edition”, p.42, Irving Risch

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