The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones.
Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down to. . . . Rationality in the form of such obedience swallows up everything, even the freedom to think.
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
To obey God is better than sacrifice.
It's better to obey God rather than men.
If we want to preserve our liberty, it is up to us to know what is going on, to know the Constitution, to know these limitation on the power of Congress and to insist that our leaders obey.
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship. . . If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
You are not saintly (a good person) because an organization says so, but rather because you stay connected to the divinity of your origination. You are not intelligent because of a transcript; you are intelligence itself, which needs no external confirmation. You are not moral because you obey the laws; you are mortality itself because you are the same as what you came from.
Don't obey if your heart tells you the order is wrong.
Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God.
True listening is obedient listening. To listen to God is to obey Him.
If security guards aren't allowed to carry guns, I don't have to obey their made up rules.
When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
What is courage? It is the ability to be strong in trust, in conviction, in obedience. To be courageous is to step out in faith - to trust and obey, no matter what.
"President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet. "
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.
You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.