"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."
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"A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature."
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"Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience."
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"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
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"I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances."
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"Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends."
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"I would rather obey than work miracles."
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"Through obedience learn to command."
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"You can only learn what obedience is by obeying"
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"Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe."
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"It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed."
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"I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience."
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"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is."
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"Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience."
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"Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently."
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"A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast."
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"Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience."
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"Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself"
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"Obedience is the key that opens every door."
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"Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason."
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