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Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked. Ellen G. White

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Ulysses S. Grant

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Havelock Ellis

If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?

Martin Gardner

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

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.

Angelina Grimke

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

Adam Clarke

Over time, Benedictine monasteries appeared around the world, always with the same anomaly: brothers living in obedience, meditation, and faith just beneath the rush of the world.

Michael Paterniti

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

Wendell Phillips

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Benjamin Franklin

I can assure the Marquis de Chasteler that it is my unalterable determination never to set foot on any territory which acknowledges obedience to His Majesty the King of Bohemia and Hungary.

Marquis de Lafayette

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.

Anne Sullivan

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

Ezra Taft Benson

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Christina Rossetti

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

Isaac Newton

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

William Penn

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Austin Farrer

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Mary Wollstonecraft

If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.

Theodor Mommsen

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

Deepak Chopra

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Nadia Boulanger

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Harry Day

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Augustus Hare

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

David Hare

Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free.

William Lloyd Garrison

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sometimes this going out in obedience to God's command is more dramatic than at other times... sometimes more spectacular... sometimes more brave... but always it is a venture into the unknown.

Peter Marshall

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.

Joseph Lancaster

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

John Nelson Darby

The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

Walter Rudolf Hess

Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.

James E. Faust

Entire civilisation stands on submission and obedience of mother.

Shehbaz Sharif

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.

James E. Faust