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Obedience Quotes

Love meant nothing to Fred; he expected obedience, that was all. Over time, Donald became afraid that asking for comfort or attention would provoke his father’s anger or indifference when Donald was most vulnerable…Donald suffered deprivations that would scar him for life.

– Mary Trump

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.

Linus van Pelt: You know what you and Snoopy should do? You should go to an obedience school!
Snoopy: Why should we go to an obedience school? He already does everything I want him to!

– Charles M. Schulz

What we call ‘morals’ is simply blind obedience to words of command.

– Havelock Ellis

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In a sense, all of my books have been about a ‘poisonous pedagogy,’ which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

– John Bradshaw

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.

– James Otis

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

– Anthony de Mello

Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey – whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

– The Bible

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

– Benjamin Franklin

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

– Buddha

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

– Christina Rossetti

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

– Augustus Hare

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 Grimke

For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

– The Bible

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

– Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else.
And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you.

– The Bible

2 Corinthians 9:13-14

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

– Ed Townsend

Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence.

– David A. Bednar

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

– Edwin Louis Cole

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

– Noam Chomsky

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

– Deepak Chopra

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

– David Hare

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

– Jonathan Mayhew

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

– John Gresham Machen

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

– John Nelson Darby

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he’s after.

– R. Lee Ermey

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

– Russell M. Nelson

What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.

– Vladimir Putin

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

– William Penn

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