Obedience Quotes - Page 8

• How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

  George Eliot

  Rivers, Feet, Choices

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6040, Delphi Classics

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• The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

  Ernest Renan

  Men, He Man, Command

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• Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

  Joshua Harris

  Purity, Happens, Accidents

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.107, Multnomah

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• Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Tyrants, Conservative, Rebellion

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• Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

  Ed Townsend

  Trust, Teachability

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• Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Mother, Men, Weakness

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Janet Todd (1989). “The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft”, NYU Press

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• Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Respect, Self, Order

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• If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Loving Life, Light

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• Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

  Matthew Henry

  Oil, Joy, Wheels

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.2343, Harper Collins

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• All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

  Juvenal

  Art, Sky, Hungry

  Juvenal (1802). “Satires”, p.79

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• To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people have a strong sense of conscience that they have educated and developed and soaked in the universal and timeless principles of integrity and service. This way, the individual's soul becomes part of the universal soul of service, contribution, and making a difference.

  Stephen Covey

  Strong, Integrity, Character

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• If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.

  Orson Scott Card

  Creativity, Men, Order

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Giant”, p.303, Macmillan

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• Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

  William Penn

  Suffering, Inquiry, Blind

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.828

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• We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Office, Affection

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.220, Delphi Classics

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• It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Suffering, Responsible

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• There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

  Anatole Broyard

  Relationship, Children, Expected

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• Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Doe, Legitimate Power

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• Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Results, Unbelief, Obedience To Authority

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• I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.

  Cassandra Clare

  Humorous, Want, Might

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.741, Simon and Schuster

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• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Public Opinion, Influence

  "The Character of Sir Robert Peel" (1856)

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• I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Goal

  FaceBook post by Jerry B. Jenkins from Oct 29, 2013

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• When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend.

  Saadi

  Rulers, Obedient, Protector

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• Obedience decks the Christian most.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Christian, Deck

  Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.177

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• He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Modesty, Worthy, Commanders

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Legibus, III. 2, p. 564, 1922.

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• We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. His purpose is that I depend on HIM and in HIS power NOW. His end is the process. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God....His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. We have nothing to do with the 'afterwards' of obedience. If we have a further end in view, we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present; if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious.

  Oswald Chambers

  Dream, Opposites, Views

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