The first great law is to obey. [ Schiller ]
True obedience is true liberty. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
To obey is better than sacrifice. [ Bible ]
When the ruler is obedient to God,
God is his protector and friend. [ Saadi ]
Obedience sums up our entire duty. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Obedience is the mother of success. [ Aeschylus ]
Faith is obedience, not compliance. [ George MacDonald ]
Obedience is the Christian's crown. [ Schiller ]
Obedience is the key to every door. [ George MacDonald ]
Command is anxiety; obedience, easy. [ Paley ]
Faith is nothing more than obedience. [ Voltaire ]
An obedient wife commands her husband. [ Beaconsfield ]
I would rather obey than work miracles. [ Luther ]
I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience. [ William Shakespeare ]
The virtue of Christianity is obedience. [ J. C. Hare ]
Let them obey that know not how to rule. [ William Shakespeare ]
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. [ Anonymous ]
Love makes obedience lighter than liberty. [ W. R. Alger ]
Obedience alone gives the right to command. [ Emerson ]
Obedience completes itself in understanding. [ Phillips Brooks ]
The word is free, action dumb, obedience blind. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Make thee my knight? my knights are sworn to vows
Of utter hardihood, utter gentleness,
And, loving, utter faithfulness in love,
And uttermost obedience to the king. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
This is faith: it is nothing more than obedience. [ Voltaire ]
Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not. [ William Shakespeare ]
I know My God commands, whose power no power resists. [ Robert Greene ]
To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel. [ H. W. Beecher ]
Obedience is much more seen in little things than in great. [ Proverb ]
All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience. [ J. Stuart Mill ]
The proof of obedience is found in small matters more than in great. [ Proverb ]
We will obey the voice of the Lord our God, that it may be well with us. [ Bible ]
Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience. [ Archbishop Manning ]
Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Except in obedience to the heaven-chosen is freedom not so much as conceivable. [ Carlyle ]
Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, yet has her humor most when she obeys. [ Pope ]
Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much. [ Michelet ]
Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. [ Ben. Franklin ]
Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey, the more they rule. [ Michelet ]
I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans. [ George MacDonald ]
No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience. [ Henry Giles ]
Light is a special help to obedience, and obedience is a singular help to increase light. [ Flavel ]
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances. [ Cicero ]
The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it. [ Phillips Brooks ]
Prepare the soul calmly to obey; Such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice. [ Metastasio ]
We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. [ Emerson ]
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him. [ Phillips Brooks ]
The abandoning of some lower end in obedience to a higher aim is often made the very condition of securing the lower one. [ J. C. Sharp ]
That was a judicious mother who said, I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
[ Beecher ]
Obedience, we may remember, is a part of religion, and therefore an element of peace; but love which includes obedience is the whole. [ George Sewell ]
A man can no more justly make use of another's necessity, than he that has more strength can seize upon a weaker, master him to his obedience, and with a dagger at his throat, offer him death or slavery. [ J. Locke ]
My May of life is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf; and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead, curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not. [ William Shakespeare ]
The loss of a mother is always severely felt; even though Her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying-point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors to please concentrate; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn! It is like that lonely star before us; neither its heat nor light are anything to us in themselves; yet the shepherd would feel his heart sad if he missed it, when he lifts his eye to the brow of the mountain over which it rises when the sun descends. [ Lamartine ]