Quotes about Obedience

Direct. IV. Be a good husband to your wife, and a good father to your children, and a good master to your servants, and let love have dominion in all your government, that your inferiors may easily find, that it is their interest to obey you. For interest and self-love are the natural rulers of the world.

remember, you cannot decline and neglect your duty, to your own hurt alone; many will be losers by it as well as you.

When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.

It is one thing to believe in God's power, it is quite another to live your life in obedient response to an all-powerful God.

To move from your way of thinking or acting to God's way of thinking or acting will require fundamental adjustments.

For with God, there's always another role to undertake, a fresh assignment, and another task that will call upon everything we've experienced and learned thus far. God is never finished with us. He may, however, be finished with our current role. If so, we must be prepared to take on the next assignment that inevitably comes.

If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me, along with all the dear animals in nature who care for their young at great cost to themselves and have suffered so much at the hands of humans.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Jesus' story of the two sons, one who said all the right words, but never acted on these words, and the other who said the wrong words, but in fact "went to work in the vineyard." Jesus said that the person who finally acts and engages "does the Father's will," even if he is a tax collector or she a prostitute and does not have the right "belief system" (Matthew 21:28—32).

The Dalai Lama said much the same thing: "Learn and obey the rules very well, so you will know how to break them properly.

There is a deeper voice of God, which you must learn to hear and obey in the second half of life.

Mere obedience is far too often a detour around actual love. Obedience is usually about cleaning up, love is about waking up.