Obedience Quotes - Page 22

• Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

  Ted Malloch

  Flower, Self, Discipline

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spiritual, Sex, Father

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus”, p.350, 谷月社

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• All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being “left alone,” is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Worry, Support, Challenges

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• Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Punishment, People

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• Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

  Jerry Bridges

  Pathways, Holiness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.111, NavPress

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• Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

  Jerry Bridges

  Character, Holiness, Conformity

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.52, NavPress

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• Jesus became a God and reached His great state of under-standing through consistent effort and continuous obedience to all the Gospel truths and universal laws.

  Milton R. Hunter

  Jesus, Law, Effort

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• If Christians around the world were to suddenly renounce their personal agendas, their life goals and their aspirations, and begin responding in radical obedience to everything God showed them. the world would be turned upside down. How do we know? Because that's what first century Christians did, and the world is still talking about it.

  Henry Blackaby

  Christian, Talking, Goal

  Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (2001). “Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda”, p.29, B&H Publishing Group

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• Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Pride, Self, Despair

  Elyse M. Fitzpatrick “Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life”, Crossway

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• The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Tests, Life Is, Obedience To God

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• Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

  John Stott

  Greatness, Kingdoms, Term

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• The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hero, Son, Pay

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.32, SCM Press

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• Time is short. The world is at the brink of eternity. Right now we have the greatest opportunity to rise up and take the victory of the cross to the last corners of this earth. The Lord Jesus is graciously calling a remnant to the joys of simple obedience. For those who respond, I believe there is an opportunity right now to share in the last great move of God before Christ returns.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Jesus, Believe, Moving

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Come, Let's Reach the World: Partnership in Church Planting Among the Most Unreached”, Gfa Books

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• The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.

  John Stott

  Names, Sake, Scripture

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Romans”, p.42, SPCK

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• The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

  Patrick Henry

  Kings, Rights, Tyrants

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

  John Owen

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

  John Owen “Epistle to the Hebrews”, Kregel Publications

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• Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Art, Son

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.351

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• In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Happiness, Color

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.49

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• Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Europe, People

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• Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it glorious. It is paved with diamonds; its banks he fringed with flowers. He overarched it with stars. Around it He spread the glory of the physical universe-suns, moon, worlds, constellations, systems-all that is magnificent in motion, sublime in magnitude, and grand in order and obedience. God would not have attended life with this broad march of grandeur if it did not mean something.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Stars, Flower

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• She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Ged, Want, Clarity

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “Tehanu”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.

  Samuel Adams

  Yield, Law, Giving

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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• Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

  John Henry Newman

  Responsibility, Guilt, Doe

  John Henry Newman (1850). “Lectures of certain difficulties felt by anglicans in submitting to the Catholic Church”, p.236

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• Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Genius, Pestilence

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Want, Sentiments

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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