Obedient Quotes - Page 3

• Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Children, Blessing, Light

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• The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and holy. But we may be missing the fact that it is here, where we happen to be at this moment and not in another place or another time, that we may learn to love Him - here where it seems He is not at work, where He seems obscure or frightening, where He is not doing what we expected Him to do, where He is most absent. Here and nowhere else is the appointed place. If faith does not got to work here, it will not work at all.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Pain, Loneliness, Missing

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• It is important for the apologist who desires to be obedient to the Word of God in defending the faith to pay special attention to the fact that throughout Scripture, God's veracity is not defended, but accepted from the outset on His authority. Unless we have more wisdom than that contained in the revelation of God, we should take the same attitude.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  Attitude, Special, Important

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• The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Believe

  "Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Meditation and Prayer".

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• Listen to your parents. Be obedient to them whether you agree with them or not. They love you more than anyone else and have your best interests at heart.

  James E. Faust

  Love, Heart, Parent

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• The most important things that any member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever does in this world are: 1. To marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority; and 2. To keep the covenant made in connection with the holy and perfect order of matrimony-thus assuring the obedient persons of an inheritance of exaltation in the celestial kingdom.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Jesus, Order, Perfect

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• From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

  Adolf Eichmann

  Order, Childhood, Age

  "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.

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• Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Passion, Perfect, Desire

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1993). “Reason, Tolerance, and Christianity: The Ingersoll Debates”

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• Remember that you must always have a deep regard for courtesy, and you must be respectful and obedient toward your seniors.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Senior, Remember, Courtesy

  Gichin Funakoshi (1994). “Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text”, p.46, Kodansha International

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• Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

  Edward Abbey

  Giants, Fool, Institutions

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms.

  William Sims

  Engineering, Drug, Brain

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• You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.

  George Carlin

  Running, Retirement, Jobs

  "Life Is Worth Losing". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Men, Devil

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• There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Meditation And Yoga

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• For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author of the laws of nature. If the laws of nature are God's commands for an essentially passive world ..., God also has the power to suspend the laws of nature, and so perform miracles.

  Brian Ellis

  God, Religious, Science

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• Be obedient to the bishop and to one another, as Jesus Christ was in the flesh to the Father, and the apostles to Christ and to the Father and to the Spirit, so that there may be unity in flesh and in spirit.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Father, Catholic

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• When Jesus invites sinners, 'Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,' he immediately adds,'take my yoke upon you, and learn from me' (Matt. 11:28-29). To come to him includes taking his yoke upon us, being subject to his direction and guidance, learning from him and being obedient to him. If we are unwilling to make such a commitment, then we have not truly placed our trust in him.

  Wayne Grudem

  Jesus, Commitment, Giving

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• To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the supreme Law-giver, on the other, is plainly repugnant to the nature, not only of man, but of all created things; for, of necessity, all effects must in some proper way be connected with their cause; and it belongs to the perfection of every nature to contain itself within that sphere and grade which the order of nature has assigned to it, namely, that the lower should be subject and obedient to the higher.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Men, Hands, Order

  Pope Leo XIII (1895). “The Pope and the People: Select Letters and Addresses on Social Questions”

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• God has never given a dream that could be fulfilled at step one. So start walking, be obedient, and watch God fulfill that dream in your life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Watches, Steps

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

  R. D. Laing

  Reason

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• My worst work happens when I get obedient.

  Michael Wincott

  Worst, Happens

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• You don't need to compromise your standards to be accepted by good friends. The more obedient you arethe more the Lord can help you overcome temptation. You can also help others because they will feel your strength. Let them know about your standards by consistently living themNo one intends to make serious mistakes. They come when you compromise your standards to be more accepted by others. You be the strong one. You be the leader. Choose good friends and resist peer pressure together.

  Richard G. Scott

  Strong, Mistake, Good Friend

  "Making the Right Choices". Richard G. Scott's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. October 1994.

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• Keep your eye on the end of the course. Victory is secured already. Do not let the hurdles cause thee consternation. Stay in the running. Verily, I am at thy side. According to each day shall thy strength be; and the race is not to the swift, but the obedient shall receive the prize.

  Frances J Roberts

  Running, Eye, Race

  Frances J. Roberts (1973). “Come Away My Beloved”

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• If you are ensnarled in pornography, make a total commitment to overcome it now. Find a quiet place; pray urgently for help and support. Be patient and obedient. Don't give up.

  Richard G. Scott

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Commitment

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