obey quotes

Hath the L as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the L? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquityand idolatry.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORD1 Samuel15:22^3.

We ought to obey God rather than men.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles 5:29.

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

To love, cherish, and to obey.

-Book of Common Prayer
Solemnization of Marriage, Betrothal. This is the bride's form of the oath.

Nemo secure pr×cipit, nisi qui bene obedire didicit. Nobody rulessafely, but he who has learned well how to obey.

- StThomas a' Kempis
c.1413  De Imitatione Christi, bk.1, ch.20, section 2.

How fit he is to sway That can so well obey.

- Andrew Marvell
  'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'.

He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: 'Follow thou me!' and setsustothetaskswhich Hehastofulfil forour time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple,He will reveal Himself inthetoils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who He is.

- Albert Schweitzer
  Von Reimarus zuWrede (translated byW Montgomery as The Quest for the HistoricalJesus,1910).

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

-Sophocles
Creon speaking. Antigone, 666^7 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones, 1994).

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

- BarbaraW(ertheim) Tuchman
  Stilwell and theAmerican Experience in China, pt.1, ch.1.