Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.
All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.
This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync with God is about obedience. Any other pursuit will get in the way.
Faith is obedience, not compliance.
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
Faith in Christ makes one a regenerated believer; obedience to the Holy Spirit makes him a spiritual believer.
When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you to succeed, He’s calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him;the obedience is up to you.
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.
Obedience sets a woman apart, fills her with life, permits her to be God-blessed.
There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience.
Obedience to the Lord is not only measured by how much we do for our Savior, but by how we obey Him when nobody is looking.
To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.
Obedience is the fruit of faith.
I cannot but take notice of the wonderful love of God to mankind, who, in order to encourage obedience to His laws, has annexed a present as well as a future reward to a good life; and has so interwoven our duty and our happiness together that, while we are discharging our obligations to the one, we are at the same time making the best provision for the other.
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.