~ Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends. ~
~ Obedience is a word and concept from which the valiant look for their deliverance. ~
~ Obedience without faith is possible, but not faith without obedience. ~
~ Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety ~
~ Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. ~
~ Obedience alone gives the right to command. ~
~ One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ~
~ There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ~
~ The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. ~
~ Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb. ~
~ Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall." ~
~ Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. ~