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Obedient people never trust in themselves. -- St. Catherine of Siena
Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit -- Mikhail Bulgakov
Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned -- Samuel Johnson
Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory. -- Hartley Coleridge
You have to have courage to be obedient to God. -- Charles Stanley
I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient. -- Maya Angelou
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. -- Henry David Thoreau
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I believe a calm dog is a happy, obedient dog that won't get into trouble. -- Cesar Millan
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do. -- Maya Angelou
Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house. -- Malala Yousafzai
All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction. -- James E. Faust
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. -- Angela Davis
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. -- Paul Klee
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm. -- Edgard Varese
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image. -- Michelangelo
In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united. -- Henri Nouwen
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to selective dogma that kept them obedient and subservient. -- Sue Monk Kidd
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness. -- Ivan Turgenev
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. -- Aldous Huxley
One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay. -- Anne Graham Lotz
We were promised that we would have Jehovah, Jesus Christ, as our Savior and Redeemer. He would assure that we would all be resurrected. And He would make it possible for us to pass the test of life if we exercised faith in Him by being obedient. -- Henry B. Eyring
My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better. -- DMX
Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle. -- David A. Bednar
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. -- Newt Gingrich
I do know this... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ. -- Joel Osteen
Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that. -- Antonio Banderas
The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain. -- Joseph Prince
It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will. -- Joyce Meyer
Never be obedient. -- Marty Rubin
An obedient wife commands her husband. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Rules are my very humble, obedient servants. -- Joseph Haydn
I am extremely square and obedient in nature! -- Tina Fey
Only the believing obey, only the obedient believe -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
My worst work happens when I get obedient. -- Michael Wincott
I had the luck of having an obedient body. -- Burt Lancaster
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects. -- Clarence Darrow
God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them. -- Henry B. Eyring
God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers. -- Bill Hybels
Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as He. -- Cecil Frances Alexander
Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you. -- Muhammad Ali
I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type. -- Joan Collins
An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent. -- Jim George
Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called. -- Remy de Gourmont
Blessing come to you when you are obedient to God's commands. -- Jim George
Be ever more obedient to God and He will save you. -- Pachomius the Great
My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. -- Paul Klee
A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart. -- Robertson Davies
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances. -- Lord Acton
God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient. -- Billy Graham
I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient. -- Tehmina Durrani
Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous. -- Diana Wynne Jones
Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend. -- Saadi
True listening is obedient listening. To listen to God is to obey Him. -- Leanne Payne
It is not long before those who are obedient in service obtain command. -- Saadi
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. -- Sinclair Lewis
The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient -- Abu Madyan
Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands. -- Leonidas I
It is important to be biblically literate, but we must also be biblically obedient! -- John Wimber
No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ. -- Charles Spurgeon
If you choose to be obedient to God, God meets you with divine enablement. -- Johnny Hunt
Jesus set an example for us to follow: a life of loving, obedient service. -- Charles Stanley
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see. -- Boyd K. Packer
We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble. -- St. Catherine of Siena
Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient. -- John Ortberg
The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option -- James Patterson
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. -- Steven Pressfield
The only true satisfaction we can seek is the satisfaction of being obedient to the Lord. -- Lysa TerKeurst
God gives prosperity only to those who personally know him and are obedient to His will. -- Sunday Adelaja
God is awesome; he doesn't need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient. -- Matt Chandler
A child who is disciplined will be more obedient and also more organized as a student. -- Bill Cosby
This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient. -- Willie Aames
Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it. -- Joyce Meyer
To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity. -- Tina Fey
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction! -- Helen Keller
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. -- Edward Abbey
I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist. -- Natalie Portman
The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person. -- Eric Hoffer
Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds. -- Kristin Cashore
I want to make a revolving door that says 'Pull' on it, just see how obedient people are. -- Demetri Martin
Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved -- Orson Pratt
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind. -- Gautama Buddha
The Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear God. -- Irenaeus of Lyons
There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons. -- R. D. Laing
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are. -- Tove Jansson
Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! -- Amy Tan
God leads His people whether they are obedient or rebellious, but His leading is far more pleasant when they obey. -- Max Anders
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation... -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world. -- A. B. Simpson
The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world. -- Billy Graham
Remember that you must always have a deep regard for courtesy, and you must be respectful and obedient toward your seniors. -- Gichin Funakoshi
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself. -- Elisabeth Elliot
When you are obedient to God, He fills you with His Spirit and empowers you to do all He asks of you. -- Jim George
No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him. -- Dwight L. Moody
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents. -- Glenn Greenwald
The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! -- Jane Austen
The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air. -- Lisa Alther
How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient." -- Gore Vidal
The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does. -- Thomas a Kempis
The main duty of ministers is to be obedient to God, following the Holy Spirit to obey everything that He instructs them to do. -- Sunday Adelaja
Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God's people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God. -- Henry Blackaby
Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do? -- Libba Bray
The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not. -- Sophocles
Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms. -- William Sims
As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code. -- Gelett Burgess
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it -- Aristotle
One Body, Many Blogs is a nifty look at the mission to cyberspace that Christians, obedient to the Spirit, have undertaken! Read it and be inspired! -- Mark P. Shea
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.... -- Noam Chomsky
A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
Concentration is like a leash for our mind, keeping it under control and obedient and not giving it too much room to move as it wishes. -- Evan Sutter
God has never given a dream that could be fulfilled at step one. So start walking, be obedient, and watch God fulfill that dream in your life. -- John C. Maxwell

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