Top 187 Obeying Quotes & Sayings

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.

Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

Let us learn from the Virgin Mary how to be bolder in obeying the word of God.

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God

Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling.

True success is obeying God.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.

Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

My inability to follow recipes as written - without obeying the devil on my shoulder telling me to replace ingredients or change the temperature - is well documented.

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

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

The collaborator has to be someone who understands that his role is to help you articulate what you want, but at the same time is not just going to be mechanically obeying, but adding to, supplementing, and coming up with stuff.

Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!

This Ayah indicates that the pious person should express his love to Allah by believing in His Prophet and following the Message, and through obeying the Prophet, abiding by his orders, leaving what he prohibits and obeying all what Allah has revealed to him, because that is the vivid expression of the practical love that fills his whole entity.

Don’t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don’t have opposition, because you’re probably not obeying God.

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

You will never go wrong obeying God.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.

She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.

Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.

Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

Obeying the rules might be smart, but it's not as nearly as much fun.

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.

We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future.

Faithfully obeying God's commandments is essential to receiving the Holy Ghost. We are reminded of this truth each week as we listen to the sacrament prayers and worthily partake of the bread and water.

Barack Obama has come closer than any figure in recent history to obeying a direct call of the people to the brutal and bloody fields of political mission.

But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I was obeying the second - to love my neighbour. Hating the oppressors of my neighbour isn't perhaps quite what Christ had in mind.

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

What I'm doing is obeying the law of diffusion of innovations.

The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.

There's 150,000 students here from the Middle East. If 40% of them have overstayed their visa, don't we need to know where they are, what they're doing, are they obeying our rules?

A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.

Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.

Dignity is the reward of obeying your heart.

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.

Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone.