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• The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Jesus, Essence

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• Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

  Timothy Keller

  Law, May, Self Centered

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.14, Penguin

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• The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.

  Chuck Missler

  Patterns, Scripture, Steps

  Chuck Missler (2011). “Learn the Bible in 24 Hours”, p.61, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we are responsible in part for our own destiny. Human beings can achieve this good life, but it is by the cultivation of the virtues of intelligence and courage, not faith and obedience, that we will most likely be able to do so.

  Paul Kurtz

  Good Life, Destiny, Atheism

  Paul Kurtz (1986). “The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal”

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• Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own life and death. Religions introduce us not to God but to slavery. They deprive us of our freedom to explore our own souls and to discover the endless and wondrous possibilities presented to us by an infinite universe. And most often the method of religions is fear, not love. They demand blind obedience and often obedience to dreadful dogma.

  Gerry Spence

  Life And Death, Soul, Religion

  Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.46, Macmillan

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• He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

  Samuel Johnson

  Government, May, Revolution

  Thomas M. Curley, Samuel Johnson (1998). “Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson”, p.125, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would control actions. That which increases the sum of human happiness is moral; and that which diminishes the sum of human happiness is immoral. . . . Blind, unreasoning obedience is the enemy of morality.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Light, Perception, Enemy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4445, Library of Alexandria

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• Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Two, Political

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• From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

  Adolf Eichmann

  Order, Childhood, Age

  "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.

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• Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Shapes, Twigs

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us. Everything in life has a price. Considering the Savior's great promise for peace in this life and eternal life in the life to come, discipleship is a price worth paying. It is a price we cannot afford not to pay. By measure, the requirements of discipleship are much, much less than the promised blessings.

  James E. Faust

  Home, Blessing, Promise

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• Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

  James E. Faust

  Love, Faith, Keys

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• Each temple building is an inspiration, magnificent and beautiful in every way, but the temple building alone does not bless. The endowed blessings and divine functions—come through obedience and faithfulness to priesthood authority and covenants made.

  James E. Faust

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Blessing

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• God’s eternal blessings are contingent upon our obedience and adherence to the word of the Lord that is revealed to us through His holy prophets

  L. Tom Perry

  Blessing, Holy Prophet, Adherence

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• Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God’s unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.

  L. Tom Perry

  Strong, Mean, Knowledge And Power

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• Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a slippery slope that was entirely within our control to stop? Or was it a relatively instantaneous sea change that sneaked in undetected because of pervasive government secrecy?

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Sea, Today

  "How Edward Snowden went from loyal NSA contractor to whistleblower" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2014.

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• Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Humanity, Citizens

  "Snowden meets with rights groups, seeks temporary asylum in Russia" by Phil Black, Laura Smith-Spark, Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. July 13, 2013.

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• Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Children, Father, Heart

  "Rule of St. Benedict". Book by Benedict of Nursia, c. AD 480–550.

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• The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

  Emma Goldman

  Mother, Brother, Children

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.375, University of Illinois Press

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• The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Patriotic, Media, Skills

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Deterring Democracy”, p.363, Random House

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• Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Children, Blessing, Light

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• Have faith to keep all the commandments of God, knowing that they are given to bless His children and bring them joy. [You] will encounter people who pick which commandments they will keep and ignore others that they choose to break. I call this the cafeteria approach to obedience. This practice of picking and choosing will not work. It will lead to misery. To prepare to meet God, one keeps all of His commandments. It takes faith to obey them, and keeping His commandments will strengthen that faith.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Children, Practice, Knowing

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• The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional-predicated upon our obedience to eternal law. I pray that we may qualify for those blessings and rejoice forever.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Flower, Blessing, Law

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• The demands of justice for broken law can be satisfied throughmercy, earned by your continual repentance and obedience to the laws ofGod... Through the Atonement you can live in a world where justiceassures that you will retain what you earn by obedience.

  Richard G. Scott

  Law, Broken, Justice

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• No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.

  Richard G. Scott

  Exercise, Blessing, Yield

  "To Help a Loved One in Need" by Richard G. Scott, www.lds.org. May 1988.

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