Top 331 Obedient Quotes & Sayings

Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as He.

I am extremely square and obedient in nature!

You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

I had the luck of having an obedient body.

Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not allow grace to live in them, and therefore they never have spiritual peace, while in the obedient soul the grace of the Holy Spirit enters easily and gives joy and peace. Whoever bears even a little grace in himself joyfully submits himself to all direction. He knows that God directs even the heavens and the netherworld, and himself, and his business, and everything in the world, and therefore he is always at peace.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

How would you describe the spiritual aroma of your home? The source of this aroma is the relationship between husband and wife. Many can fake an attempt at keeping God’s standards in some external way. What we cannot fake is the resulting, distinctive aroma of pleasure to God. Most marriage books address the mere externals of marriage, without seeking to understand the heart issues. Godly marriages proceed from an obedient heart, and the greatest desire of an obedient heart is the glory of God, not the happiness of the household.

God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient.

Jesus set an example for us to follow: a life of loving, obedient service.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit

God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by the society. It will give you a Nobel prize and it will give you many honours; it will do everything to make you feel great, if you can fulfil one condition: if you are obedient, obedient like a robot, then all respect is for you. Then the society will make you a great hero, but there will be no grace, no beauty, no freedom, no truth, no being; you have committed a real suicide.

Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel. There is an obedience that comes from a knowledge of the truth that transcends any external form of control. We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.

The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having become world-famous in any dimension of creativity? Have you heard of any obedient child who has attained the Nobel prize for anything - literature, peace, science? The obedient child becomes just the common crowd. All that is added to existence is added by the disobedient.

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.

Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

Rules are my very humble, obedient servants.

The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Blessing come to you when you are obedient to God’s commands.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Be ever more obedient to God and He will save you.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

I have to be obedient to my fans and come on back and give 'em everything that they want.

Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you

The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

When I was captain, John Wright was making all the decisions and I followed like an obedient student.

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

Every time we are obedient to the words of the prophets and apostles we reap great blessings. We receive more blessings than we can understand at the time, and we continue to receive blessings long after our initial decision to be obedient.

I don't have a cause - I am being obedient to God.

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.

Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.

I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.

Obedient people never trust in themselves.

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . . We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see

When we escape from this earth, do we suppose we are going to heaven? Do you suppose you are going to the earth that Adam came from? that Eloheim came from? where Jehovah the Lord came from? No. When you have learned to become obedient to the Father that dwells upon this earth, to the Father and God of this earth, and obedient to the messengers He sends-when you have done all that, remember you are not going to leave this earth. You will never leave it until you become qualified, and capable, and capacitated to become a father of an earth yourselves.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

My worst work happens when I get obedient.

No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.