#obedience

I play by the rules even when there aren’t any. ↗

— Stacy Kramer

#obedient #rules #obedience

I couldn't get to sleep. The book lay nearby. A thin object on the divan. So strange. Between two cardboard covers were noises, doors, howls, horses, people. All side by side, pressed tightly against one another. Boiled down to little black marks. Hair, eyes, voices, nails, legs, knocks on doors, walls, blood, beards, the sound of horseshoes, shouts. All docile, blindly obedient to the little black marks. The letters run in mad haste, now here, now there. The a's, f's, y's, k's all run. They gather together to create a horse or a hailstorm. They run again. Now they create a dagger, a night, a murder. Then streets, slamming doors, silence. Running and running. Never stopping. ↗

— Ismail Kadaré

#reading #obedience

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong. ↗

— Ilsa J. Bick

#obedience

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience... ↗

— John Owen

#gods-sovereignty #obedience

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#before #boy #dog #down #importance

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

— Ulysses S. Grant

#make #men #obedience #rules #slavish

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

— Eric Liddell

#discipline #obedience #life

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

#appropriately #body #capable #first #god

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

— Douglas Bader

#guidance #men #obedience #rules #wise

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

— Chris Hedges

#death