"Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said."
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"Every good servant does not all commands."
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"I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make."
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"Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love."
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"Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!"
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"Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live."
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"We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions."
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"If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought."
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"Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves."
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"All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience."
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"When you yield yourself in complete and whole-hearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you."
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"Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist."
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"Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say."
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"Give obedience where 'tis truly owed."
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"God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!"
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"The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not."
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"Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ."
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"Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke."
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"He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander."
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"The first great law is to obey."
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