You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request. ” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.
Surely the Lord loves, more than anything else, an unwavering determination to obey his counsel.
Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated.
Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you
When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge enters the mind. "
Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.
Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable.
The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.
. . . often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.
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. . . .
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance
Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you have not chosen me. ” We are not our own; we have been bought with a price. We have no rights, only responsibilities. Following Christ is not our initiative, merely our response, in obedience. Nothing works better to debunk the pretensions of choice than a conviction of calling. Once we have been called, we literally “have no choice.
Obedience is a part of greatness.
Obedience is the key to every door.
Obedience out of love is joy.
But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.