separated from that to which one belongs” is most appropriate. … For the monarchical model, sin is primarily disloyalty to the king, seen especially as disobedience to his laws. The metaphors used to express the...

We can’t make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. – Army saying

That’s the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.

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

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...

Our obedience is God’s pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God....

The word Ilaah means something that deserves to be worshiped AND obeyed at the same time. It is not enough to worship Allah through rituals. We have to give His obedience precedence over our desires...

Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people!

Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group’s normative power to shape the opinions of the...

Those who have attained everlasting life in the vision of God doubtless know very well that it is no mere bribe, but the very consummation of their earthly discipleship; but we who have not yet...

Israel’s first king, Saul, looked like he was born for the role. He was tall, handsome, intelligent, and sensitive to God’s leading. But he eventually lost most of his attractive qualities, the most important being...

The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in...

There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.

Obedience, forgiveness, and devotion are in the blood of every victim.

There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is...

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person’s wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his...

Greatness is obedience to what Jesus said, to the commission to go to the ends of the earth. It means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone, in the Name of Jesus Christ.

[He] seemed to possess, beneath it all, an immutable sense of self-assurance, but in addition to that, the look of a man ensnared by what he perceived to be his own Duty. A Duty that...

is written” are the causes of the Bible being hard to understand. The hard part, then, is not understanding with the mind, but being willing to obey what he does not want to obey. If...

Honour comes and goes, influence comes and stays, but none of them safeguards us against danger than the mentor of true leadership; Jesus Christ!

Press button woman was there for himFor whatever he was wanting.No demand was too bigPress button woman knew her gig.

We are apt to imagine that if Jesus Christ constrains us and we obey Him, He will lead us to great success; but He does not. If our Lord has ever constrained you, and you...

[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.

The best-trained part of us, though, is the mouth, it �is always obediently and devoutly shut. And it’s only too true: an open mouth is a yawning fact, the fact that its owner is dwelling...

Lord, if you show me the way, I will follow You.

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn’t know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you.”He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt,...

Obedience to truth known, is the king’s highway to that which is still beyond us

Go, send, or disobey.

Legalism is when we try to obtain the result of obedience by our own means and strength. It is self-righteousness, as opposed to God’s righteousness covering us, and the two are as different as spirit...

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God’s grace and is...

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own...

When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you’re right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked...

Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it’s always because they know why.

Choices will continually be necessary and — let us not forget — possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong...

When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More often it refers to a religion accepted by the large majority, which assures...

Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of...

It has been reliably established that from 1933 to 1945 millions of innocent people were systematically slaughtered on command. Gas chamberswere built, death camps were guarded, daily quotas of corpses were produced with the same...

It’s only when we understand [Jesus’] presence in the church as being the fulfillment of God’s promise in Zephaniah 3:17 to “quiet you with his love” and “rejoice over you with singing” that a crucial...

We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.

The “hillbilly” girls were generating more enriched Tubealloy per run than the PhDs had…The District Engineer understood perfectly. Those girls…had been trained like soldiers. Do what you’re told. Don’t ask why.

Three rules to obey!1. Don’t be over-impressed by your past glories! 2. Don’t be scared by your future stories!3. Be hopeful to get out of today’s miseries!

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment…. The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and...

The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.

the wonder of empty hands” (Bernanos), the great potential of the person on the street, whose radical dependence on God is no different from anyone else’s. He has no talent but that of his own...

God calls his creatures to live under authority. He is our authority and has vested authority in people within the institutions he has established (home, church, state, and business). You must not be embarrassed to...

Whatsoever the Lord Jesus commands you, do it, irrespective of consequences. Many who greatly delight to expatiate on the “Whosoever” of John 3:16, are not so much concerned about the “Whatsoever” of John 2:5, “Whatsoever...

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

when you obey the rules, the rules obey you