“Obedience is the mother of success
and is wedded to safety”
- Aeschylus
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“Obedience is the fruit of faith.”
- Christina Rossetti
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“Obedience alone gives the right to
command.”
- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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“One act of obedience is better than
one hundred sermons.”
- Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
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“Obedience sums up our entire duty.”
- Hosea
Ballou
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“Obedience without faith is possible, but
not faith without obedience.”
- Anonymous
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“Liberty is obedience to the law which
one has laid down for oneself.”
- Jean-Jacques
Rousseau
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“A
great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts
of disobedience.”
- Barbara
Deming
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“No principle is more noble, as there is
none more holy, than that of a true obedience.”
- Henry
Giles
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“Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and
when to obey.”
- William A. Ward
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“Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient
believes.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
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“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”
- Benjamin Franklin
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“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of
wise men.”
- Douglas Bader
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“Obedience indeed is only the pitiful
and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than
reason.”
- Percy
Bysshe Shelley
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“I know the power obedience has of making things easy
which seem impossible.”
- Saint Teresa of Avila
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“Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really
want to live.”
- Joyce Meyer
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“All good things that happen to us is the result of our own obedience
to God, while the bad once, measures our failure to do His will.”
- Fausto Gil
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“Obedience is a word and concept from
which the valiant look for their deliverance.”
- Anonymous
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“The ship that will not obey the helm
will have to obey the rocks.”
- English Proverb
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“It is right that what is just should
be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.”
- Blaise Pascal
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“The soldier is like the monk, for
whom order is called obedience.”
- Pietro
Badoglio
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“It is much safer to obey, than to govern.”
- Thomas à Kempis
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“I don't do what I'm told, but I might
do what you want if you ask me nicely.”
- Cassandra Clare |
“Disobedience
is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break
them.”
- Anthony de Mello
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“I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No
hope without it.”
- John Gresham Machen
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“Blessing come to you when you are
obedient to God’s commands.”
- Jim George |
“Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't
ask questions... You follow and obey.”
- Bai Ling
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“I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.”
- Jerry B. Jenkins
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“Obedience to the word in humility of mind never
confuses.”
- John Nelson Darby
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“Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the
virtue of Christianity.”
- David Hare
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“Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.”
- Elizabeth Missing Sewell
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“Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”
- Anonymous
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“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.”
- Hosea Ballou
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“It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.”
- Anonymous
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“True obedience is true liberty.”
- Henry Ward Beecher
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“The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.”
- British Proverb
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“Obedience completes
itself in understanding.”
- Phillips Brooks
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“It makes a difference to all
eternity, whether we do right or wrong today.”
- James F. Clark
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