#obedience

Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#clouds #pillow #obedience

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#comfort #disciple #discipline #faith #give

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young. ↗

— Noah Webster

#children #obedience #parents #obedience

The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#holiness #obedience #faith

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#before #boy #dog #down #importance

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#apostle #christ #ever #faith #genuine

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#make #men #obedience #rules #slavish

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

#any #blind #blind obedience #christians #civil

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#obedience #paganism #strength #virtue

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul. ↗

— William Ames

#appropriately #body #capable #first #god