Obedience Quotes - Page 39

• As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Troops, Looks

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 22

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• Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.

  David Platt

  Christian, Powerful, Inspiration

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• If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God’s will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham’s bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home.

  John Newton

  Lying, Angel, Home

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• When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, I Love Him, Thinking

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.90, Revell

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• I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

  Dan Barker

  Love, God, Christian

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.89, Ulysses Press

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• God’s training is for now, not presently. His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. we have nothing to do with the afterwards of obedience; we can get it wrong when we think of the afterwards. what men call training and preparation, God calls the end… if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment is precious.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Thinking, Preparation

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.62, Discovery House

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• We're not called to live by human reason. All that matters is obedience to God's Word and his leading in our lives. if God says go,we'll go. If he says stay, we'll stay. When we are in his will, we are in the safest place in the world.

  Brother Yun

  World, Matter, Reason

  Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2002). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.272, Monarch Books

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• A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

  Naomi Wolf

  Motivational, Beauty, Women

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.187, Random House

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• My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him. 

  David Platt

  Jesus, Settling, Radical

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• It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't

  Baroness Orczy

  Simple, Knives, Doe

  Baroness Orczy (2012). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• ‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.

  Martin Luther

  Thinking, House, Heaven

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• People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Spring, Struggle, Fighting

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• The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.

  Jerry Bridges

  Hero, Promise, Pathways

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• True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.

  Philippa Gregory

  Thinking, Agreement, Waiting

  Philippa Gregory (2006). “The Constant Princess”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• God beckons storm clouds and they come. He tells the wind to blow and the rain to fall, and they obey immediately. He speaks to the mountains, 'You go there,' and He says to the seas, 'You stop here, and they do it. Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator...until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.

  David Platt

  Rain, Fall, Blow

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• Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This may not be clear at first; but, if we think patiently, we shall find that it is true. Why were you angry? You will probably find that it w as because you were not willing to accept the world as God has made it, or because you were not willing to leave it to God to deal with the people that He has made.

  Stephen Neill

  Acceptance, Thinking, People

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• There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better, tougher training, more marksmanship on the firing range, the instant obedience to orders seared into men in boot camp.

  James Brady

  Military, Marine, Men

  James Brady (2007). “The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea”, p.9, Macmillan

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• Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Military, Fighting, Pride

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• Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in their vaults, or at least insure it against fire and theft. They are mistaken.

  Tom Robbins

  Fear, Believe, Fire

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• A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility of the pope, or obedience to any church official if it is against my conscience. I am not interested in earning "merit" or in being saved by priestly incantation.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Christian, Fear, Believe

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.475, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation, Mind, Firsts

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• We are taught in an especial manner to pray that God would give his Holy Spirit unto us, that through his aid and assistance we may live unto God in that holy obedience which he requires at our hands.

  John Owen

  Hands, Giving, May

  John Owen (1841). “A treatise on the Holy Spirit and his operations: An exposition of the 130th Psalm”, p.84

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• The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.

  Antony Flew

  Love Is, Inspire, Islam

  "The Terrors of Islam". Atheist Notes, No. 6, 2004.

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• The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection.

  John Dod

  Wife, Duty, Constant

  John Dod, Robert Cleaver (1622). “A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandements: With a Methodicall Short Catechisme, Containing Briefly the Principall Grounds of Christian Religion”, p.217

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• The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It has resulted in an incalculable amount of psychological torture, especially among children where it is employed as a terror tactic to prompt obedience.

  George H. Smith

  Christian, Children, Religion

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