Obedient Quotes - Page 6

• The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Innovation, Rules And Regulations, Body

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• God leads His people whether they are obedient or rebellious, but His leading is far more pleasant when they obey.

  Max Anders

  People, Rebellious, Pleasant

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• Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.

  John Ortberg

  Mean, Doubt, Doe

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.213, Harper Collins

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• I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful.

  Beth Moore

  Way, Bears, Painful

  Beth Moore (2015). “Believing God”, p.197, B&H Publishing Group

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• True listening is obedient listening. To listen to God is to obey Him.

  Leanne Payne

  Listening

  Leanne Payne (1999). “Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear God's Voice and Keep a Prayer Journal”, p.125, Baker Books

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• The Church desperately needs people of joy and zeal. Show me a church that is consistently obedient to this single command, and I will show you a church that is turning its world upside down.

  Josh Hunt

  People, Joy, Church

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• I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Mean, Men, Yesterday

  William F. Buckley Jr. (2010). “Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus”, p.42, Encounter Books

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• Latin America was the most obedient follower of the neoliberal regime that was instituted by the United States, its allies and the international financial institutions. They followed it most rigorously. Almost everyone who's followed those rules, including the Western countries, have suffered. And in Latin America they suffered severely.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Latin, America

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

  Eric Hoffer

  Rowdy, Matter, Submissive

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Enduring faith is not blind or obedient, it is keenly attentive and responsible; it is not fed by awe, but by quickening interest; prosperity is not the disappearance of problems, but the continual engagement with the process of finding solutions. Wisdom is not given from on high, but must be painstakingly unraveled from the knots in his own guts.

  Deane Juhan

  Engagement, Problem, Prosperity

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• I want to make a revolving door that says 'Pull' on it, just see how obedient people are.

  Demetri Martin

  Doors, People, Want

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• It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a lot of harm was done to the society. And the reason is because we were civilized and that's dangerous. That increased the commitment to democracy, to rights and so on, and this left people much less obedient.

  Noam Chomsky

  Commitment, Rights, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Strong, Reality, Men

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between the cross, an instrument of suffering that procured our reconciliation with God, and its use as a symbol for nefarious attacks on black people. But they believe that they are being obedient to God because they can read things that they see.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Thinking, Kkk

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• Rules are my very humble, obedient servants.

  Joseph Haydn

  Humble, Servant

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• If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Heart, Humble, Cheerful

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• When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Dumb, Tongue

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.164, St. Martin's Press

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• The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our own oppression as women.

  Audre Lorde

  Loyal, May, Oppression

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• Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Passion, Men, Sea

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• We're going to capture the lost sovereignty of our country... And when we get there, my friends, we will only be obedient to one sovereign America, and that is the sovereign of God Himself and His laws.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Law, America

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• It's so hard when sincere prayer about something you desire very much is not answered the way you want. It is difficult to understand why your exercise of deep and sincere faith from an obedient life does not grant the desired result. At times it is difficult to recognize what is best or expedient for you over time. Your life will be easier when you accept that what God does in your life is for your eternal good.

  Richard G. Scott

  Prayer, Exercise, Desire

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• Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Japan

  "The Second World War, Volume III : The Grand Alliance". Book by Winston S. Churchill, chapter 32, 1950.

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• If you choose to be obedient to God, God meets you with divine enablement.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• Our Savior was crucified for our sakes that by His death He might give us life and train and attract us all to endurance. To Him I press on, and to the Father and to the Holy Spirit. I strive to be found true, judging myself unworthy of this world's goods; and yet not I because of the world, but the world because of me. Think of all these things in your heart; follow them with zeal; fight, as you have been commanded, for the truth to the death: For Christ was made 'obedient' even 'to death'

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Father, Heart

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• With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

  Robert Toombs

  Nature, Ordinary Extraordinary, Quiet

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