21 quotes found
“How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston thought. By making him suffer, he said.Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be...”
“Obedience is love, fulfilling every command, love expressing itself. Obedience, therefore, is not a hard demand made upon us, any more than is the service a husband renders his wife, or a wife rend...”
“The one who expects God to do as he asks Him must on his part do whatever God bids him.”
“God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.”
“I cannot make my kids obey. But I can control my responses to their disobediencethat is, I can respect their choices and provide wise consequences for their actions, so they can learn just as much ...”
“When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffe...”
“Replace a goal of obedience with one of connection and trust instead. Children are drawn to follow those to whom they are emotionally connected. By parenting not for obedience but for relationship,...”
“Loving ourselves is not some frothy sentiment. Nor is it an egotistical self-centerdness. It is obedience, obedience to the commandments of God that have to do with self.”
“People often find comfort in ignorance of illusions, but rarely find solace in the truth of reality.”
“For Bonhoeffer, the relationship with God ordered everything else around it. A number of times he referred to the relationship with Jesus Christ as being like the cantus firmus of a piece of music....”
“Obedience is an act of faith disobedience is the result of unbelief. ”
“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-...”
“Obedience alone gives the right to command.”
“Let they child's first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt.”
“Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.”
“Let them obey that know not how to rule.”
“The eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother the ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young eagles shall eat it.”
“How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?”Winston thought. “By making him suffer,” he said.“Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can yo...”
