#obedience

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education. ↗

— Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#obedience #object #primary #sound

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#civil #civil disobedience #disobedience #first #justice

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#generally #great #great talent #kinds #life

if we don’t rebel, if we’re not physically in an active rebellion, then it’s spiritual death. ↗

— Chris Hedges

#death

Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness. ↗

— John Bytheway

#obedience #faith

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#education #evil #good #humane #morality

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies. ↗

— Criss Jami

#cookie #cute #faithfulness #funny #god

The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#obedience #faith

Smee, you are a supreme idjit." "Aye, Cap'n. ↗

— Ridley Pearson

#humor #obedience #smee #humor

Describing Bonhoeffer's demeanor on returning to danger in Germany rather than safety in America, with "with a strong and joyful firmness such as only arises out of realized freedom. ↗

— Eric Metaxas

#obedience #freedom