Obedience Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Father, Eye

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• Life of the soul is union with God, as life of the body is union with the soul. As the soul was separated from God and died in consequence of the violation of the commandment, so by obedience to the commandment it is again united to God and is quickened. This is why the Lord says in the Gospels, 'The words I speak to you are spirit and life' (Jn. 6:63).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Soul, Body

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• ...we know that God arranges the opportunities for salvation in different ways. Our situation is that we respond eagerly or in a laggardly manner to these opportunities made available by God to us. God made the call come out of your homeland; Abraham by coming out was exercising obedience. There was the instruction come into the land; it was done, and that was the work of obedience. But the addition which I shall show you has to do with the grace of God, who gave a command - and a promise.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Exercise, Opportunity

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.93, Paulist Press

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• Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Powerful, Passion

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• Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and gave life to the fallen. O abyss of humility! Adam and Eve lost themselves through gluttony, the Lord fasted and died for them, in order to give them life. They were disobedient, Christ fulfilled obedience.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Humility, Pride

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• God is worthy of my loving obedience because of who He is, not because of what he does.

  Jerry Bridges

  Doe, Worthy

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.100, NavPress

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• Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Sweet, Jesus, Keys

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• Obedience is the road to freedom.

  C. S. Lewis

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

  Jerry Bridges

  Mind, Natural, Unreasonable

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

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• We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction

  Gary Haugen

  Long, Justice, Helping

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• I like this thought: Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves, and those of our family members, are stocked with the things which will provide safety to our souls and enable us to return to our Father in Heaven. Such shelves could well be stocked with gospel scholarship, faith, prayer, love, service, obedience, example, and kindness

  Thomas S. Monson

  Kindness, Prayer, Father

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• Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims - as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs. He wants to deal with men by means of faith and force - he finds no satisfaction in their consent if he must earn it by means of facts and reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Wish

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.986, Penguin

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• Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Believe, Exercise, Men

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.39, Bantam Classics

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• Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Sports, Workout

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