Obedience
The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.
Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.
A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who submit to the authority of the pope.
A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.
One of the three monastic vows.
The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject.
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Obedience Quotations
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Theodore Roosevelt
Obedience is the fruit of faith.
Christina Rossetti
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Robert E. Lee
The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
R. Lee Ermey
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Henry Ellis
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
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
William Penn
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
William Penn
Obedience Translations
obedience in German is Gehorsam, Folgsamkeit
obedience in Italian is obbedienza
obedience in Spanish is obediencia
obedience in Swedish is lydnad
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