Obedience Quotes - Page 6

• Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

  John Ruskin

  Perfect, May, Energy

  John Ruskin (1866). “The seven lamps of architecture”, p.166

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• No nice extreme a true Italian knows;
  But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

  Juvenal

  Nice, Italian, Hell

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  Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

  Chief Joseph

  Life, Strength, Teacher

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Teaching, Mean, Essence

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• Through persistent, effective, and diligent work, a person can accumulate knowledge in the form of facts, data, information, and experience. Intelligence, however, can only be gained through obedience. Thus, knowledge is a prerequisite to and foundation for true spiritual intelligence.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Data, Foundation

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• Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

  Bede Griffiths

  Responsibility, Men, Self

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• Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark because, the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Dark, Play, Tyrants

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

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• The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior-or lack of integrity-a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain.

  Tara Leigh Cobble

  Pain, Integrity, Distance

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• ... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Ugly, Matter, Love And Forgiveness

  Hannah Hurnard, Darien Cooper (2015). “Hinds' Feet on High Places: The Original and Complete Allegory with a Devotional and Journal for Women by Darien Cooper”, p.316, Destiny Image Publishers

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• If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.

  Paul Ricoeur

  People, Imagination, Want

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• The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Politics, Anarchy

  "Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1985.

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• The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Obeying The Law, Safe, Rulers

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• Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Thinking, Reason, Egotism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Knowing Nothing, Knowing, Knows

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (2013). “Idylls of the King”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Bad Ass

  "A History of Militarism: Romance and Realities of a Profession". Book by Alfred Vagts, p. 27., 1937.

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• God seeks comrades and claims love,
  The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Devil, Slave

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.440, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Sincere, Evidence, Infallible

  "Works: With a Memoir of His Life".

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• Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

  Howard Zinn

  Problem, Starvation, Civil Disobedience

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• Our problem is civil obedience

  Matt Damon

  Problem

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• Surely the Lord loves, more than anything else, an unwavering determination to obey his counsel.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Determination, Lord, Unwavering

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

  Adam Clarke

  Law, And Love, Christ

  Adam Clarke (1837). “The Preacher's Manual: Including Clavis Biblica, and A Letter to a Methodist Preacher”, p.61

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• We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Perfect, Liberty, Safe

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• The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

  Sophocles

  Men, Hearing, He Man

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Husband, Law, Doe

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• Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Son, Blood, Currency

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