#obedience

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#apostles #could #evils #existing #imitate

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. ↗

— David Hare

#obedience #paganism #strength #virtue

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread? ↗

— Ron Sider

#christianity #compassion #fashion #hunger #luxury

There is a heady sense of manhood that comes from advancing from apathy to commitment, from timidity to courage, from passivity to aggressiveness. There is an intoxication that comes from standing up to the police at last. ↗

— David T. Dellinger

#courage #justice #resistance #courage

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#freedom #liberty #obedience #protest #slave

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (...) Being saved is trusting in what Christ did for us, but being Christian is dependent on the way we respond to what he did for us. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#bible #christian #christianity #conversion #discipleship

We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#food-for-thought #god #individual #instruction #israelmore-ayivor

There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -" "I am desolated!" "That's a good boy! ↗

— Agatha Christie

#haha #humour #obedience #friendship

Together we shared a bond not even death would violate. ↗

— Dee Remy

#family #friendship #love #lovers #loyalty

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#civil-disobedience #dissent #protest #law