O Quotes
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“Obedience is a part of greatness.”
“Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.”
“Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.”
Source: That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary
“Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course of His life; thus He often says, He did not come to do His Own will, but that of His Heavenly Father.”
“Obedience is always followed by blessings”
“Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.”
“Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.”
“Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be a symphony, a painting, or a story for a small child. I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am, Enflesh me. Give birth to me." And the artist either says, "My soul doth magnify the Lord," and willingly becomes the bearer of the work, or refuses; but the obedient response is not necessarily a conscious one, and not everyone has the humble, courageous obedience of Mary.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.”
“Obedience is less painful than regret.”
“Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not allow grace to live in them, and therefore they never have spiritual peace, while in the obedient soul the grace of the Holy Spirit enters easily and gives joy and peace. Whoever bears even a little grace in himself joyfully submits himself to all direction. He knows that God directs even the heavens and the netherworld, and himself, and his business, and everything in the world, and therefore he is always at peace.”
“Obedience is not creation, and thus can never produce salvation. Obedience is a response, while creation is pure choice, undictated, unrequired. Pure choice produces salvation through the pure creation of highest idea in this moment now.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.”
“Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.”
Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden
“Obedience is our responsibility. The outcome is God's responsibility. As we learn to trust him with our future, trust him with those we love, trust him as our provider, and trust his sovereign plan, that gives us the foundation to step out in faith. We can trust that he'll always be faithful.”
“Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.”
Source: Carlyle Reader
“Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.”
“Obedience is the Christian's crown.”
Source: The Poems and Ballads of Schiller
“Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.”
“Obedience is the fruit of faith.”
“Obedience is the fruit of faith;
patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.”
“Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.”
“Obedience is the gift of God.”
Source: Predestination of the Saints
“Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people!”
“Obedience is the highest practical courage.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847
“Obedience is the key that opens every door.”
“Obedience is the key to every door.”
Source: MALCOLM & THE MARQUIS’S SECRET: Complete Marquise of Lossie Collection (Adventure Classic): The Fisherman's Lady
“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.”
“Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people.”
“Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.”
“Obedience is the path to freedom.”
“Obedience is the pathway to blessing. It’s the means of protection. It’s the means of joy. It’s the means to finding God’s best in our lives.”
“Obedience is the pathway to holiness.”
Source: The Pursuit of Holiness
“Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.”
Source: Obedience to Authority
“Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Obedience is the road to freedom.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Obedience is the thing, living in active response to the living God. The most important question we ask of this text is not, 'What does this mean?' but 'What can I obey?' A simple act of obedience will open up our lives to this text far more quickly than any number of Bible studies and dictionaries and concordances.”
Source: Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
“Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.”
Source: The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri
“Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God's statutes and nothing else.”
“Obedience is to surrender to God's will and it is a form of worship.”
Source: Re-Exploring Genesis: Uncover the Author's Intents, Gain Clarity, and Deepen Your Faith.
“Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.”
“Obedience is your responsibility, the outcome is God's!”
“Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.”
Source: The seven lamps of architecture
“Obedience isn’t a lack of fear. It’s just doing it scared.”
Source: 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
“Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.”
“Obedience leads to a powerful, confident life.”
Source: One-Minute Insights for Men
“Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated.”
“Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.”
“Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.”
Source: You learn by living
“Obedience moves the hand of the Lord.”