Pastoral Resources

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

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.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.