Obedience Quotes

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin

God, Against, Rebellion

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Theodore Roosevelt

Law, Asked, Favor

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

Media, Admire, Dictator

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas Carlyle

Him, Woe, Claims

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Act, Sermons, Hundred

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

Loyalty, Down, Before

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.
Charles Stanley

God, Blessings, Him

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Douglas Bader

Men, Wise, Rules

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus

Success, Mother, Safety

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Robert E. Lee

Character, Foundation, Manly

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
Charles Stanley

Life, Christian, Word

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

Islam, Allah, Mixture

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
William Penn

God, Rebellion, Tyrants

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
William Penn

Justice, Lives, Pay

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

Strength, Virtue, Paganism

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.
Bruno Bettelheim

Best, May, Teach

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

Political, Corruption, Why

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

Faith, Act, Result

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Power, Impossible, Easy

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Force, Legitimate, Constitute

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mind, End, Blind

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.
Bede Griffiths

Men, Freedom, Self

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
Ulysses S. Grant

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Havelock Ellis

Words, Call, Simply

Obedience is the fruit of faith.
Christina Rossetti

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

Love, Great, Knowledge

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
R. Lee Ermey

Control, After, Complete

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
Anthony de Mello

Love, Knows, Rules

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.
Walter Bagehot

Men, Words, Thoughts

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

Rock, Perfect, Flowers

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