Quotes 21 till 40 of 42.
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Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
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Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
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Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
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Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
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Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
The fear of some divine and supreme powers, keeps men in obedience.
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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
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The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.
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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
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They would say, he answered, that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.
That Hideous Strength (1945) Ch. 7 : The Pendragon, section 2 -
True obedience is true freedom.
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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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