Quotes about obedience

"Obedience is better than sacrifice."

Bible on obedience   

"Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on obedience
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"The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders."

Cocteau, Jean on obedience
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"The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on obedience   

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"Those who know the least obey the best."

Farquhar, George on obedience
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"There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey."

Forster, William Edward on obedience
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"No principal is so noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience."

Giles, Henry on obedience   

"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."

Grimke, Angelina on obedience   

"It is much safer to obey, than to govern."

Kempis, Thomas on obedience   

"It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed."

Pascal, Blaise on obedience   

"The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks."

Proverb, English on obedience   

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

Roosevelt, Theodore on obedience   

"Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends."

Ruskin, John on obedience   

"Every good servant does not all commands."

Shakespeare, William on obedience   

"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."

Sullivan, Anne on obedience   

"Obedience is a word and concept from which the valiant look for their deliverance."

Unknown, Source on obedience   

"Obedience without faith is possible, but not faith without obedience."

Unknown, Source on obedience   

"Unwavering obedience to the true principles we learn will assure us spiritual survival."

Unknown, Source on obedience   

"Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey."

Ward, William A. on obedience
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"There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul."

Weil, Simone on obedience   

"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."

Wilde, Oscar on obedience   

"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. "

Gil, Fausto on obedience