#obedience

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it. ↗

— John Bunyan

#ridicule #men

The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#holiness #obedience #faith

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

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#islam #militancy #mixture #obedience #requires

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#blind obedience #end #enlarging #female #female mind

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

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it. ↗

— John Gresham Machen

#active #christ #hope #i #obedience

If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures? ↗

— Martin Gardner

#cover #creates #creatures #dancing #god

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#does #due #force #legitimate #obedience

Our central problem is not sin and guilt, as it is within the monarchical model. For the Spirit model, our central problem is “estrangement,” whose specific meaning of “separated from that to which one belongs” is most appropriate. ... For the monarchical model, sin is primarily disloyalty to the king, seen especially as disobedience to his laws. The metaphors used to express the Spirit model suggest something else. For the metaphor of God as lover, sin is unfaithfulness—that is, sin is going after other lovers. ↗

— Marcus J. Borg

#love #obedience #relationship #unfaithfulness #faith