I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them that the mob are influenced; it is they who the inspectors cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second hand carriages; no one cares for them or asks about them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.
If you have believed but not obeyed, you have postponed your Christian life.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.
The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.
If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.
The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11. . . obeyed by faith. . . obedience is the pathway to holiness. . . no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.
Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.
It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the Church of Rome; if you wish to enter that Island, to drive vice out of it, to cause law to be obeyed and St Peter's Pence to be paid by every house, it will please us to assign it to you.
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
