Obeying Quotes - Page 4

• We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

  Robert Grudin

  Time, Children, Real

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Procrastination, Simple

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out every order unconditionally. You have a responsibility before God and Hitler for everything that is happening. I myself hate this bloody business and I have been moved to the depths of my soul. But I am obeying the highest law by doing my duty. Man must defend himself against bedbugs and rats, against vermin.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Hate, Responsibility, Men

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• Unbroken companionship helps us hear His instruction so then we can see His direction. We must not seek direction before obeying His instruction.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Christian, Unbroken

  Lysa TerKeurst (2014). “The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands”, p.18, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

  Alistair Begg

  Taken, Confusion, Church

  Alistair Begg (2009). “The Hand of God: Finding His Care in All Circumstances”, p.120, Moody Publishers

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• All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts and minds into conformity to His will, that when obeying Him we shall be but carrying out our own impulses. The will, refined and sanctified, will find its highest delight in doing His service. When we know God as it is our privilege to know Him, our life will be a life of continual obedience. Through an appreciation of the character of Christ, through communion with God, sin will become hateful to us.

  Ellen G. White

  Appreciation, Heart, Character

  Ellen G. White (2015). “The Complete Conflict of the Ages”, p.2240, Simon and Schuster

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• Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.

  Rashi

  Love Is

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• Young people, if you honor your fathers, you will love them, respect them, confide in them, be considerate of them, express appreciation for them, and demonstrate all of these things by following their counsel in righteousness and by obeying the commandments of God.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Appreciation, Father, People

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• Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.

  Jerry Bridges

  Trusting Him, Results, Gods Will

  Jerry Bridges (1996). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• Dignity is the reward of obeying your heart.

  Wes Fesler

  Heart, Rewards, Dignity

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• It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Art, Prayer

  "Walking with God through Pain and Suffering".

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• A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.... The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him.

  Thomas Merton

  Mean, Giving, Tree

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

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• You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  New Year, Years, Yesterday

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• Let us learn from the Virgin Mary how to be bolder in obeying the word of God.

  Pope Francis

  Mary, Word Of God, Virgins

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• Obeying the Spirit instead of your own self-centered whims will lead you to places you've never been, challenge you in ways you have never been challenged, and invite levels of sacrifice you never dreamed you could make. This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.

  Bill Hybels

  Sacrifice, Self, Challenges

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• Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.

  Jerry Bridges

  Exercise, Law, Motive

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God’s Unfailing Love”, p.55, Tyndale House

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• The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Unhappy, Majority, Males

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.85, Vintage

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• A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.

  Raymond Carver

  Men, Matter, Damn

  Raymond Carver (2015). “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”, p.39, Vintage

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• To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Teaching, Mean, Essence

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• I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.

  Tamora Pierce

  Horse, Book, Years

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• Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.

  James A. Garfield

  Science, Government, Law

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1”, p.455, Best Books on

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• I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.

  Alice Walker

  Father, Taken, Night

  Source: foreignpolicy.com

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• A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.

  Edward Abbey

  Character, Men, Age

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Jesus, People

  Francis Chan, Mark Beuving (2011). “Living Crazy Love: An Interactive Workbook for Individual or Small-Group Study”, p.91, David C Cook

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• The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and still be inside the law. The same thing goes for rules, policies and procedures - you know, the organization's "internal laws." You can "go by the book" and still behave unethically. Still not move beyond mediocrity. High standards-the ethics of excellence-come to life through your basic values, your character, integrity and honesty. Obeying the law is the bare minimum.

  Price Pritchett

  Honesty, Integrity, Moving

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