(118 quotes found)
“For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.”
Bible
“The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage.”
Stephanie Coontz
“Legalism is to seek to achieve forgiveness from God and acceptance by God through my obedience to God.”
Keri Harvey
“Either in the name of discipline to teach obedience, or for reasons of stress, more than 80 percent of the cases we've found were done by the child's mother.”
Seto Mulyadi
“The Gospel of Judas turns Judas' act of betrayal into an act of obedience. The sacrifice of Jesus' body of flesh in fact becomes saving. And so for that reason, Judas emerges as the champion and he ends up being envied and even cursed and resented by the other disciples.”
Craig Evans
“Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.”
Austin Farrer
“War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.”
Alexander Berkman