Quotes about Obedience

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.

And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.

The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline -- who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices -- do not qualify to lead.

The world really does not matter, but God has made it so, and so it matters in God, and He Hath Aims for it, which we cannot know without the understanding of obedience. There is nothing to do but give praise. This is my ethic of "art" and why so.