I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.
Every Word of God is Spirit and life. When you receive and obey the Word of God, the power of God works in you.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
We're no longer slaves to fear. That doesn't mean we're emotionless now, or never face fear, it just means we don't have to obey it.
The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.
For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.
When God speaks and we obey, we will always be right.
For them that must obey authorityThat they do not respect in any degreeWho despise their jobs, their destiniesSpeak jealously of them that are free
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!
You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.
Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"
How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!
We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.
But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates.
I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.