The great test of life is obedience to God.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.
I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless.
