She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.
It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely,. . . when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.
Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray for revival while ignoring or actually flouting the plain precept laid down in the Scriptures is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble.
Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.
I won't stick around to see how much temptation I can take. God is not impressed with my ability to stand up to sin. He is more impressed by the obedience I show when I run from it.
Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.
In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.
Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
God cares more about your obedience to His Spirit's leading TODAY than what you will do next year.
In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.
Through obedience learn to command.
Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.
Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
Obedience is a hard profession.
Somebody is waiting on the other side of your obedience.
You don’t obey your way into faith (the Pharisees proved that); you believe your way into obedience.