“Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”
Bible
“We may not always oblige, but we may always speak obligingly”
Voltaire
“The weight of this sad time we must obey;Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
William Shakespeare
“Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.”
“Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God; / And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; / Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.”
“And wherefore do you want to be immortal? you ask me, wherefore? Frankly, I do not understand the question, for it is to ask the reason of the reason, the end of the end, the principle of the principle.”
Miguel de Unamuno
“There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.”
Charles de Montesquieu
