#obedience

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#church #church power #clergy #denied #faith

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#act #better #hundred #obedience #one act

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#due #him #obedience #refuses #woe

The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest "is". - Rossana Condoleo ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#ethics #self-awareness #self-importance #self-improvement #social-competence

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery. ↗

— Douglas Coop

#charisma #civil-disobedience #loaded-language #power #propaganda

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. Snow

#rebellion #rebellion

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. ↗

— Aristotle

#civil-disobedience #good #patriotism #value #virtue

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#god #obedience #rebellion #tyrants

Israel's first king, Saul, looked like he was born for the role. He was tall, handsome, intelligent, and sensitive to God's leading. But he eventually lost most of his attractive qualities, the most important being obedience. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#obedience #saul #intelligence

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#blind obedience #call #command #morals #obedience