Obedience

Famous quotes containing the word obedience:

    A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
    John Bradshaw (1602–1659)

    I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
    Anne Sullivan (1866–1936)