Quotes about Compliance

The work of obedience is difficult and of the highest importance; so that if anyone can be negligent therein because God will help and assist him, it is because he hates it, he likes it not. Let others do what they please, I shall endeavour to comply with the apostle's advice upon the enforcement which he gives unto it: Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his own good pleasure. These

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Let these innocent people be careful not to invest in corporations where those in control are not men of probity, men who respect the laws; above all let them avoid the men who make it their one effort to evade or defy the laws.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.

Obedience without knowledge is blind, and knowledge without obedience is lame.

The missing note in evangelical life today is not in the first instance spirituality but rather obedience. We have generated a variety of religion to which obedience is not regarded as essential.

Dogma is what you have to believe, whether you believe it or not. And law is what you must do, whether it is good for you or not.

In the army, you dont ask what you are going to do: you just do it. In fact, the way to get along in any army is never even to wonder why they want something done or what they are going to do with it after it's finished, but just do it and then get out of sight so that they cant just happen to see you by accident and then think up something for you to do, but instead they will have to have thought up something to be done, and then hunt for somebody to do it.

The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.