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"Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue."
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"We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance."
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"Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation."
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"God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance."
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"Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity."
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"Lawful worship consists in obedience alone."
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"Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you."
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"Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will."
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"The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience."
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"In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file."
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"Obedience is the Christian's crown."
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"Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it."
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"Let them obey that knows not how to rule."
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"Obedience to authority saves many skins"
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"Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever."
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"Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive."
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"This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience."
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"A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience."
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"Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments."
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