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3. “God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait.”
John Milton
Divine Service, Humility, Patience, Obedience, Human Purpose
10. “To conceive God as an all-powerful Person, or else, under the name of Christ, as a human person, is to exclude oneself from the true love of God. For this reason we must love the perfection of the heavenly Father even in the diffusion of sunlight. The divine and absolute model of that renunciation in us – which is obedience – is the creative and ordained principle of the universe, such is the fullness of being.” Simone Weil God, Love, Perfection, Obedience, Divine Nature, Spiritual Understanding
12. “Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.” Simone Weil State Power, Obedience, Historical Development, Political Philosophy, Social Critique, Individual Autonomy
21. “They work off all their resentments, enjoy all the smug self-satisfaction a young revolutionary would have, and by the time they take their place in the Imperial hierarchy, they are ready to settle down into conformity and obedience.” Isaac Asimov Revolution Conformity, Hierarchical Integration, Resentments, Revolution, Obedience, Hierarchy
25. “Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God’s help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.” Fyodor Dostoevsky Spiritual Discipline, True Freedom, Obedience, Freedom, Discipline, Joy
27. “Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.” Isaac Newton Allegiance, Law, Freedom, Obedience, Sovereignty, Government
Obedience Quotes by Famous Authors
3. “God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait.”
John Milton Divine Service, Humility, Patience, Obedience, Human Purpose
10. “To conceive God as an all-powerful Person, or else, under the name of Christ, as a human person, is to exclude oneself from the true love of God. For this reason we must love the perfection of the heavenly Father even in the diffusion of sunlight. The divine and absolute model of that renunciation in us – which is obedience – is the creative and ordained principle of the universe, such is the fullness of being.”
Simone Weil God, Love, Perfection, Obedience, Divine Nature, Spiritual Understanding
12. “Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.”
Simone Weil State Power, Obedience, Historical Development, Political Philosophy, Social Critique, Individual Autonomy
21. “They work off all their resentments, enjoy all the smug self-satisfaction a young revolutionary would have, and by the time they take their place in the Imperial hierarchy, they are ready to settle down into conformity and obedience.”
Isaac Asimov Revolution Conformity, Hierarchical Integration, Resentments, Revolution, Obedience, Hierarchy
25. “Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God’s help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky Spiritual Discipline, True Freedom, Obedience, Freedom, Discipline, Joy
27. “Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.”
Isaac Newton Allegiance, Law, Freedom, Obedience, Sovereignty, Government
