Obedient Quotes - Page 11

• It is important to be biblically literate, but we must also be biblically obedient!

  John Wimber

  Important

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• . . . This is the high destiny of the sons of God, they who overcome, who are obedient to His commandments, who purify themselves even as He is pure. They are to become like Him; they will see Him as He is; they will behold His face and reign with Him in His glory, becoming like unto Him in every particular.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Son, Destiny, Becoming

  Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Blind, Obedience, Blind Obedience

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie.

  Edgar Guest

  Giving Up, Winter, Doctors

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

  Saadi

  Obedience, Rulers, Protector

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• A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Love, Appreciation, Children

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• Let's review the cost-free techniques that we've learned so far for raising an achievement-oriented, obedient, drug-free, virgin adult: Calamity, Praise, Local Theater, and flat feet. Another key element is "Strong Father Figure / Fear Thereof."

  Tina Fey

  Strong, Father, Keys

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• A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heart, Sorrow, Stakes

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• I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type.

  Joan Collins

  Two, Pace, Littles

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• My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent,
  renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - good to themselves and the country at large

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Lying, Character

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.165, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Be ever more obedient to God and He will save you.

  Pachomius the Great

  Christian, Orthodox

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• Here's an encouraging word for someone tonight - don't think you're not doing what God called you to do just because things don't seem as glamorous as you thought they would be. If you are a woman who honors God right where you are, you are in ministry. Keep being obedient, keep looking for the next open door of opportunity, and above all else hold closely to our Lord.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Opportunity, Thinking, Doors

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jan 27, 2015

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• An obedient wife commands her husband.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Husband, Wife, Command

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5029, Delphi Classics

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• My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Ideas, Soldier

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Powerful, Moving, Men

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• A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

  Aristotle

  Wife, Quality, Female

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• The subconscious ... reacts very quickly to strong emotions or feelings. Whatever it is you vividly imagine, the subconscious thinks is actually happening. The subconscious, if instructed properly, is like a faithful, obedient servant who fulfills your every wish.

  John Harricharan

  Strong, Thinking, Feelings

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• A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Men, Morality

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1987, Library of Alexandria

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• O Allah,
  You know that the only thing I want in this life
  Is to be obedient to Your command.
  Even the living sight of my eyes
  Is service at your court

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Islamic, Eye

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• Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as He.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Christian, Children

  Cecil Frances Alexander (1871). “Hymns for Little Children”, p.30

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• The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient

  Abu Madyan

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• [this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

  Aristotle

  Soul, Desire, Principles

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.24, Wordsworth Editions

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• The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.

  Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

  Nature, Men, Law

  Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1854). “Hufeland's art of prolonging life”, p.99

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• Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Character, Foolish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1316, Delphi Classics

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• I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

  Maya Angelou

  Knows

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2013.

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