I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling…and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and...

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

Every now and then I like to do as I’m told, just to confuse people.

By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution’s highest rank – dignity.

As our faith grows and we come to know more about the attributes of God and his role in our lives and our obedience, we learn to see our weakness in light of these words,...

Unquestioning obedience is hailed as a great virtue only by those leaders whose commands are highly questionable.

No matter what you do each day…or in life…doing things God’s way is a matter of the heart.

If you follow the rules, it’s your own fault.

Oh, sometimes it’s just easier to please people,” Maria said finally.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It’s almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Obedience is the fruit and proof of love; and the words of the Master are suggestive, “If a man love Me he will keep My words” (John 14:23). One has forcibly remarked, “When people speak...

The common man prays, ‘I want a cookie right now!’ And God responds, ‘If you’d listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

Obedience is the opener of eyes.

But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor?

God does not bless religious efforts—He blesses heart-felt obedience.

I do not qualify to be a model. I lack the necessary obedience.

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

In the matters of your life don’t take orders, take decisions.

We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than observance. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allowed to...

Sol wanted to know how any ethical system – much less a religion so indomitable that it had survived every evil mankind could throw at it – could flow from a command from God for...

Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person’s seemingly...

We are born free, but are taught to obey orders.

What single-minded, purposeful, compassionate obedience did it take for Jesus to walk through this world completely unrecognized for who he truly was? Even those dearest and closest to him did not grasp it while he...

When we’re not following God’s will, our sacrifices aren’t acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.

It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.

Schools train you to be ignorant with style […] they prepare you to be a usable victim for a military industrial complex that needs manpower. As long as you’re just smart enough to do a...

‪Obedience‬ is an antidote to heal the outcome of the rebellion. Jesus did it!

A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.

Nothing saddens me more than seeing how quickly the dog grows used to its leash.

I would like to say that I had all kinds of great ideas about what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. I would like to say my ministry was born...

It is when we are at our darkest hour, when we can see no evidence that God loves us or that he is even there to listen to our prayers, much less answer them…and yet,...

Having confidence in your obedience, offers yourself confidence and love.

God’s promises are always yes. It only takes faith and obedience to recognize them. When you do, claim them with sincerity in your heart.

In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love (‘be encouraged’) but not the discipline of his love (‘and sin no more’). But with the whole scope of his...

We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.

Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their...

An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent.

A model is an actor without a voice.

The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him....

An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.

Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her. If anyone had asked her what she meant by integrity...

… primitive times had required primitive obedience, that later generations evolved to the point where parents offered themselves as sacrifice – as in the dark knights of the ovens which pocked old earth history –...

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

We are born free, but we’re taught to obey orders.

To many, “The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.

The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior–or lack of integrity–a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain.” –...

{The final resolutions at Robert Ingersoll’s funeral, quoted here}Whereas, in the order of nature — that nature which moves with unerring certainty in obedience to fixed laws — Robert G. Ingersoll has gone to that...

I don’t do what I’m told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.

Maana halisi ya falsafa ya ‘Nitakuwa tayari kufungwa kwa ajili ya matatizo ya watu’, au Falsafa ya Kufungwa, ni uvutano mkubwa uliopo kati ya Roho Mtakatifu na Roho wa Shetani kwa sisi wanadamu wote. Jambo...