#obey

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#brave #conscience #courage #him #his

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#good #matters #most #obey #ready

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#believe #hard #obey

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) ↗

— Eve Ensler

#being-alive #being-different #difference #intensity #love

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

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. ↗

— Paul de Man

#betrays #both #error #exists #literature

Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him. ↗

— Charles F. Stanley

#obey-god #inspirational

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. ↗

— Xun Zi

#changed #conventions #courtesy #first #guided

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#great #law #most #most powerful #must

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. ↗

— Albert Camus

#definition #instinct #law #nature #obey