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Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental.

Ge Hong

Loyalty, Fundamentals, Trustworthiness

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Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.

Francis Quarles

Kings, Highways, Stills

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Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

Hosea Ballou

Law, Social, Cradle

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Harmony is the inlet of God into the mind, so that the mind acts in obedience to a law above mind - and that law is unity.

Ernest Wood

Law, Unity, Mind

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Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield.

Frances Power Cobbe

Struggle, Yield, Ideas

Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.107, Cambridge University Press

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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

George Bernard Shaw

Honesty, Police, Rebellious

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4489, e-artnow

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Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Resistance, Slave, Distinction

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.54, e-artnow

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I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense.

Eve Ensler

Taken, Years, Differences

"Writing plays, righting wrongs" by Beth Dozoretz, www.politico.com. September 24, 2013.

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Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Law, Liberty, Oneself

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...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.

Soren Kierkegaard

Christian, Offering, Giving

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As patterns of obedience develop, the specific blessings associated with obedience are realized and belief emerges. Desire, hope, and belief are forms of faith, but faith as a principle of power comes from a consistent pattern of obedient behavior and attitudes. Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.

Kevin W. Pearson

Spiritual, Attitude, Blessing

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My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.

Bill Johnson

Giving Up, Responsibility, Heart

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I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.

George MacDonald

God, Leaving Me, Plans

"The Marquis of Lossie".

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I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?

C. S. Lewis

Eye, Thinking, Order

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

John Owen

Effort, Compromise, Sin

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It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

Publilius Syrus

Taught, Bitter, Humiliation

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With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Practice, Ideas, Christianity

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press

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All knowledge is the outgrowth of obedience; everything else is just information.

Watchman Nee

Information

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Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat that was never moored, nor hear a shadow in its furs, nor move through thick life without fear. For us, all that's left is kisses tattered as the little bees that die when they leave the hive. Deep in the transparent night they're still humming, at home in the dark wood on the mountain, in the mint and lungwort and the past. But lay to your heart my rough gift, this unlovely dry necklace of dead bees that once made a sun out of honey.

Osip Mandelstam

Moving, Home, Heart

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When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.

Simone Weil

Hurt, Pain, Tired

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Whenever the conviction of God's Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.

Oswald Chambers

Spirit, Guidance, Conviction

Oswald Chambers (2015). “Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life”, p.166, Discovery House

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If your men grow weary of the work or balk at obedience, you must bear with them. Get what you can gently from them. True, it is good to be firm in attaining your goal, but use appropriate, attractive, and agreeable means.

Vincent de Paul

Mean, Men, Goal

Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.

Charles Churchill

School, Race, Criticism

Charles Churchill (1776). “Poems”, p.17

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There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power -- God, history, fate, nation, or humanity.

Bruce Lee

Strong, Powerful, Responsibility

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.240, Tuttle Publishing

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Oscar Wilde

Eye, Men, History

"The Soul of Man Under Socialism". Essay by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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