Quotes with obedience

  • Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
  • When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
  • Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
  • How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
  • What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
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  • Robert Benchley A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Bai Ling Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Alexander Herzen All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Noam Chomsky Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Annie Dillard Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • B. W. Powe Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
    Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 75
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Simone Weil 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
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • A. W. Tozer Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • John Ruskin Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bill Hybels How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge I believe that the fewer the laws in a home the better; but there is one law which should be as plainly understood as the shining of the sun is visible at noonday, and that is, implicit and instantaneous obedience from the child to the parent, not only for the peace of the home, but for the highest good of the child.
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • William Shakespeare I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Anne Sullivan I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Calvin Coolidge In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Mary Caroline Richards It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • Adam Clarke Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Henry Giles No principal is so noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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