#obedience

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. ↗

— Austin Farrer

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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

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The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be like Mary who, when the angel told her that she was to bear the Messiah, was obedient to the command. ...I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me." And the artist either says, "My soul doth magnify the Lord," and willingly becomes the bearer of teh work, or refuses; but the obedient response is not necessarily a conscious one, and not everyone has the humble, courageous obedience of Mary. As for Mary, she was little more than a child when the angel came to her; she had not lost her child's creative acceptance of the realities moving on the other side of the everyday world. We lose our ability to see angels as we grow older, and that is a tragic loss. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

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I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

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Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#bottom line #christian #christian life #even #life

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. ↗

— John Strachan

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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

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

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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