The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
Obey-obedience Quotes
Any set of social and economic arrangements which is not founded on the acceptance of individual responsibility will do nothing but harm. We are all responsible for our own actions. We cannot blame society if we disobey the law. We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.
“She still seems to me in her own way a person born to command,” said Luce… “I wonder if anyone is born to obey,” said Isabel. “That may be why people command rather badly, that they have no suitable material to work on.”
Obedience. A religion of slaves. A religion of intellectual death. I like it. Don’t ask questions, don’t think, obey the Word of the Lord – as it has been conveniently brought to you by a man in a Rolls with a heavy Rolex on his wrist. I like that job! Where can I sign up?
The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.
I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God’s call.
Come when you’re called And do as you’re bid; Shut the door after you And you’ll never be chid.
If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler […]
