Obedience quotations

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◆ The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.

- H.L. Mencken99

◆ The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

- D.H. Lawrence99

◆ God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

- Criss Jami99

◆ And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

- Catherine Gilbert Murdock99

◆ If my last name were Bedient, I'd want to Irishize it and have you call me O'Bedient. Of course, just because you call me, doesn't mean I'll come.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ He doesn't want you to obey a bunch of rules, He wants your love.

- Lacey Mosley99

◆ I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

- Stanley Milgram99

◆ When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion

- C.P. Snow99

◆ There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to our Heavenly Father in prayer. If we will be obedient and if we are diligent, our prayers will be answered, our problems will diminish, our fears will dissipate, light will come upon us, the darkness of despair will be dispersed, and we will be close to the Lord.

- Robert D. Hales99

◆ Together we shared a bond not even death would violate.

- Dee Remy99

◆ We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

- Jerry Bridges99

◆ There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.

- Og Mandino99

◆ Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility. There are very few in the world today who have obedience. Our humility is in proportion to our obedience.

- Thaddeus of Vitovnica99