Obedience Quotes - Page 5

• Obedience is the highest practical courage.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Practicals, Highest

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847”, p.131, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Somebody is waiting on the other side of your obedience.

  Tim Storey

  Religious, Jesus, Entrepreneur

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• The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety.

  Algernon Sidney

  Government, Order, People

  Algernon Sidney (1751). “Discourses Concerning Government”, p.407

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• Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Saint, Truth Is

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• Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who deserve respect and by obeying the appropriate rules and regulations. Children, obedience is not weakness. Obedience with humility leads to discipline.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Humility, Discipline

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• Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Libertarian Party, Historical

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.23, Heron Dance Press

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• Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Godly, Saws, Surrender

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• Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of rejection isn't just psychological; it's biological. It's in our cells.

  Steven Pressfield

  Cells, Rejection, Tribes

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.87, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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  Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Mother And Daughter, Mind

  1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pt.1, ch.2.

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• The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.

  Bob Jones, Sr.

  Character, Acid, Our Love

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• When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By recognizing that he is a part of a larger body which is banded together for a common purpose, he becomes more than an individual, he rises to a new dignity of citizenship. Instead of finding himself restricted and confined by rendering obedience to public law, he finds himself protected and defended and in the exercise of increased and increasing rights.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Exercise, Rights, Law

  "Freedom and its Obligations". Speech at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, May 30, 1924.

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• The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.

  David Edward

  Self, Common Sense, People

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• To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  Assessment, Soldier, Proud

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.3284, e-artnow

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• Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

  Stephen Covey

  Law, Laws Of Life

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Lessons, Firsts

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.60, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Children, Years

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• The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Humility, Firsts, Steps

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• The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Law, Giving

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• The first great law is to obey.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Law, Firsts

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.48

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• I too believe that God will always make a way where there is no way. I believe that if we will walk in obedience to the commandments of God, if we will follow the counsel of the priesthood, he will open a way even where there appears to be no way.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Believe, Way, Priesthood

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• A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Conformity, Persons, Bounds

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• Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

  George Farquhar

  Men, Feet, Promise

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• What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

  John Bunyan

  Men, World, Pilgrims Progress

  John Bunyan, William Mason (1814). “The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come;: Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream: Wherein is Discovered the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country:”, p.97

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• Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Jobs, People, Ordinary

  "The Perils of Obedience," Harper's Magazine, 1974.

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• Man unquestionably has impressive powers... But after all our obedience and good works, we cannot be saved from the effects of our sins without the grace extended by the atonement of Jesus Christ... Man cannot earn his own salvation.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Men, Grace

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