When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
How shall we know that we obey [God]? There is but one method by which we can know it, and that is by the inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord witnessing unto our spirit that we are His, that we love Him, and that He loves us. It is by the spirit of revelation we know this.
It's not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters.
Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.
He that cannot obey, cannot command.
All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.
Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.
Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas.
One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.
Only the believing obey, only the obedient believe
As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist
Those who know the least obey the best.
We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.
You are not saintly (a good person) because an organization says so, but rather because you stay connected to the divinity of your origination. You are not intelligent because of a transcript; you are intelligence itself, which needs no external confirmation. You are not moral because you obey the laws; you are mortality itself because you are the same as what you came from.
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.
If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.
He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.