I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one’s inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience...

I don’t need a steak knife to cut my meat. That’s why karate chops were created. I’m like a butter knife, only slightly less deadly. But I’m great with bagels—and disobedient old people.

Disorder, disobedience & rule breaking are features of all my stories.

The Christian living in disobedience also lives devoid of joy and hope. But when he begins to understand that Christ has delivered him from the reign of sin, when he begins to see that he...

You are evidence of your mother’s strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It might be good if we stop using the terms victory and defeat to...

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

We considered behaving, but it’s against our nature.

…This is the arena in which a spiritualized disobedience means most. It doesn’t mean a second New Deal, another massive bureaucratic attack on our problems. It doesn’t mean taking to the streets, throwing bricks through...

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Never be disobedient; take a coach, take a mentor and be instructed!

[…] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.

The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedience of...

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn’t concerns anyone.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

…wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit…

Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.

For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice.

The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from religious experience: when religious authorities began to insist on the literal truth of...