#obedient

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#christ #death #find #form #freedom

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#family #his #legal #loyal #noah

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#advantage #attitude #because #constructed #great

You have to have courage to be obedient to God. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#god #obedient #you

I don’t need a steak knife to cut my meat. That’s why karate chops were created. I’m like a butter knife, only slightly less deadly. But I’m great with bagels—and disobedient old people.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bagels #butter #butter-knife #creation #deadly

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

— Stacy Kramer

#obedient #rules #obedience

I had the luck of having an obedient body. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#had #having #i #luck #obedient

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. ↗

— Paul Klee

#become #born #everything #fall #fruits

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#obedient #only #who

I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm. ↗

— Edgard Varese

#dream #exigencies #i #i dream #inner