Obedience Quotations | Page 2

Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

I too believe that God will always make a way where there is no way. I believe that if we will walk in obedience to the commandments of God, if we will follow the counsel of the priesthood, he will open a way even where there appears to be no way.

God will always make a way where there is no way.

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

No master can make me swear blind obedience.

Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions.

Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

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

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

Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated.

Obedience is the path to freedom...

The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

Success is not a pursuit...but the result of obedience to the Divien and Natural laws of Life established by the Creator

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

Our problem is civil obedience

If we knew how often the obedience of others is affected by our own, and how often our stepping forth soon brings forth a whole platton of helpers, and how often our speaking forth soon creates a chorus - we would be even more ashamed of our slackess and our silence.

Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.

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

Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.

Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.

It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

Whenever the conviction of God's Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.

This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience...

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

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

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

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

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

Obedience decks the Christian most.

The first great law is to obey.

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.

Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel.

Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth.

A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty

And it was from this desire to serve the church in the most useful and efficient way that the vow of special obedience to the pope was born.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.

Faith is obedience, not compliance.

Obedience is the key to every door.

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Obedience is a hard profession.

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom

Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.

Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.

A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.

Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience.

When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend.

Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience.

We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.

Smee, you are a supreme idjit." "Aye, Cap'n.

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

Obedience to authority saves many skins

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

Somebody is waiting on the other side of your obedience.

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

Let them obey that knows not how to rule.