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• He who cannot obey cannot command.

  Jack Hyles

  Command

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• Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of the obedience or righteousness there was in it.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Suffering, Satisfaction, Merit

  "Works, Vol. 5". Book by Jonathan Edwards, E. Baines, p. 489, 1809.

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• When we truly understand what it means to love as Jesus Christ loves us, the confusion clears and our priorities align. Our walk as disciples of Christ becomes more joyful. Our lives take on new meaning. Our relationship with our Heavenly Father becomes more profound. Obedience becomes a joy rather than a burden.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Father, Mean

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• Obedience completes itself in understanding.

  Phillips Brooks

  Understanding

  Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We took up
  our positions, in obedience to instructions.

  T. S. Eliot

  War, Instruction, Position

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.551, Faber & Faber

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• Obedience isn’t a lack of fear. It’s just doing it scared.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Scared

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.86, B&H Publishing Group

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• The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Law, Mulling Over

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.59, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• When the Lord wants to give us a mission, wants to give us a task, He prepares us. He prepares us to do it well...What is important is the whole journey by which we arrive at the mission the Lord entrusts to us...when the Lord gives a mission, He always has us enter into a process, a process of purification, a process of discernment, a process of obedience, a process of prayer.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Journey, Giving

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• Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

  Robert E. Lee

  Wedding, Character, Civil War

  "General Robert E. Lee After Appomattox" by Franklin Lafayette Riley, (p. 18), 1922.

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• Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience.

  Saadi

  Greatness, Quality, Threshold

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.33, Innovations and Information

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• Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.

  John Bevere

  Spiritual, Maturity, Bounds

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2016

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• Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Oppression, Rebellion, Tyranny

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• Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Sacrifice, Offering, Soul

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• A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  New Beginnings, Revival, Obedience To God

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.14

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• God honors obedience, and He has distinct plans for us. I think the dreams that God puts in our hearts, we can fulfill. He's equipped us for that.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Obedience is not creation, and thus can never produce salvation. Obedience is a response, while creation is pure choice, undictated, unrequired. Pure choice produces salvation through the pure creation of highest idea in this moment now.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Ideas

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.138, Penguin

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• From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Self, Opinion, Sin

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• In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Joy, Genuine

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• There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

  Adolf Hitler

  Honesty, Sacrifice, Order

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• Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

  David Jeremiah

  Hands, Feet, Mind

  David Jeremiah (2013). “What Are You Afraid Of?: Facing Down Your Fears with Faith”, p.67, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out, to be paid attention to and be considered apart from the rest Fashion elevates the insignificant by making it in the representative of a totality, the particular incarnation of a common spirit. Its function is to make possible the kind of social obedience which is at the same time individual differentiation It is the mixing of submission and the feeling of domination that is in action here.

  Georg Simmel

  Fashion, Support, Feelings

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• Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.

  Will Durant

  Loyalty, Order, Society

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.

  Joshua Harris

  Selfish, Service To Others, Behavior

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• The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Keys, Mind, Areas

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• Every good servant does not all commands.

  William Shakespeare

  Doe, Very Good, Servant

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 5, sc. 1, l. 6

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