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• Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

  Bill Johnson

  Law, Voice, Principles

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• Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

  George Muller

  Motive, Instance, Disobedience

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• Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Bible

  Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.124, Regnery Publishing

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• Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates of acceptance. On the other hand, He may Allow you to fall into disobedience which happens to lead you to the right path. DISOBEDIENCE that teaches you HUMILITY is better than PIETY that fills you with VANITY and ARROGANCE.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Fall, Humility, Acceptance

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• If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religion, Atheism, Answers

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• Obedience out of love is joy.

  Heidi Baker

  Love Is, Compassion, Joy

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• You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Gratitude, Destiny, Law

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• Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

  Aeschylus

  Success, Mother, Safety

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• True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Compromise, Our Relationship, Refusal

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• I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

  C. S. Lewis

  Freedom, Being Free, Purpose

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• The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Christianity, Virtue

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.13

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• Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Faith, Believe, Obedient

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• Obedience is the key to every door.

  George MacDonald

  Keys, Doors

  George MacDonald (2015). “MALCOLM & THE MARQUIS’S SECRET: Complete Marquise of Lossie Collection (Adventure Classic): The Fisherman's Lady”, p.738, e-artnow

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• The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Men, Understanding

  Oswald Chambers (1935). “The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest; Selections for the Year”

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• Obedience to the Lord is not only measured by how much we do for our Savior, but by how we obey Him when nobody is looking.

  John Wimber

  Lord, Savior

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• Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Prayer, Way, Lacking

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• Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Real, Obstacles

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• Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Love, Children, Knowledge

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• The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Authority

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Those who walk in radical obedience have made themselves ready for the storm, and they will overcome.

  Bob Sorge

  Storm, Overcoming, Made

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• I would rather obey than work miracles.

  Martin Luther

  Miracle

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• Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

  John Ruskin

  Devil, Chance, Ends

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• Those who know the least obey the best.

  George Farquhar

  Spirituality, Obeying, Knows

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Sir Harry Wildair”

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• Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel. There is an obedience that comes from a knowledge of the truth that transcends any external form of control. We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Doctrine, May, Speak

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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