Obedient Quotes

• Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  May, Obedience, Knows

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• It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Soldier, Virtue, Obedience

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by by Leon Goldensohn, ed. by Robert Gellately, p. 166, 2004.

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

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Faith, Believe, Obedience

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• Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Husband

  "The Canterbury tales: translated into modern English prose".

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• Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, Favors, Obedience

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.

  Epictetus

  Men, Law, Special

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

  Paul Klee

  Fall, Writing, Hands

  Diary entry for January/February 1918, No. 1104. "The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918", p. 387, 1968.

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• My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

  Paul Klee

  Hands, Ripe Fruit, Instruments

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.387, Univ of California Press

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• Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Submit, Constraints, Compelled

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• Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.

  Muhammad Ali

  Obedience, Inferiors, Superiors

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• A child who is disciplined will be more obedient and also more organized as a student.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Students, Organized

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• God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.

  Bill Hybels

  Risk, Pouring, Delight

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• My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.

  DMX

  Hands, Listening, Stronger

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• No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.

  Dwight L. Moody

  God, Solitary Life, Able

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• This is the glory and miracle of grace, that God, through the Holy Spirit, is able to transform a stubborn, rebellious, and unbelieving will into a passionate, obedient, believing will without violating the integrity of the individual or diminishing the voluntary nature of one's decision to trust Christ for salvation.

  Sam Storms

  Integrity, Believe, Decision

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• The only true satisfaction we can seek is the satisfaction of being obedient to the Lord.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Satisfaction, Lord

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• Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind,
  Obedient passions, and a will resigned

  Samuel Johnson

  Prayer, Passion, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.67, Univ of California Press

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• God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient.

  Billy Graham

  Successful, Doe, Obedience

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• the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.

  Ouida

  Wall, Moving, Government

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• Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.

  George Carlin

  Running, Smart, Thinking

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• The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Lying, People, Deceit

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• In the same way humans have domesticated sheep and other animals by murdering the strong ones and breeding the docile, obedient ones, the powers-that-be have done the same with the masses.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Strong, Animal, Sheep

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals. Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don't fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America. Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom.

  Juan Williams

  Education, Uncles, America

  "Rutgers rage against Rice -- why do liberals have so much hate for black conservatives?" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2014.

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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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• Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  Peace, War, Hero

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

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