Pastoral Resources

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.