Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony de Mello

This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.

John Calvin

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

John Calvin

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

John Jewel

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

Rudolf Steiner

We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.

Charles Stanley

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

Blaise Pascal

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Baruch Spinoza

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

Edwin Louis Cole

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

C. S. Lewis

Obedience is the road to freedom.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

B. F. Skinner

Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

Xun Zi

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Xun Zi

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

Isabel Sanford

I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.

Chuck Palahniuk

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

Billy Graham

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Jeff Hawkins

The Pilot was born in desperation. When all your other options are closed, you might as well try to do the right thing.

Ramon Magsaysay

The PIATCO contract was not entered into by the administration, it was in fact nullified by it. The North Rail, and other government projects and charges of diversion allegations of public funds for campaign activities, are also not borne out by facts.

Bee Wilson

One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.

Denis Villeneuve

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.