#obedience

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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

— Ulysses S. Grant

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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

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You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice. ↗

— Eric Liddell

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Augustus Hare

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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered. ↗

— Walter Rudolf Hess

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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

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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

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Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. ↗

— Douglas Bader

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