(118 quotes found)
“Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.”
“Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.”
A. W. Tozer
“True obedience is true freedom.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.”
Robert Benchley
“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”
William Penn
“The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.”
Angelina Grimke
“There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are Obedience, Endeavor, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, and love of the Fatherland.”
Adolf Hitler
“Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.”
Thomas Jefferson
“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer