Religious Disobedience Quotes

Inciting to revolution is treason, not only against man, but also against God.

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.

I had stopped going to church the moment I joined the Regiment. No more could my mother nag me into God's presence.

Those who are not giving up their nefarious activities even in the holy month of Ramzan, should their activities not be called unholy?

When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself.

There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.

A nation that turns it back on Christ and God's words of truth will inevitably regret it.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives.

I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.

It seems to me that the darkness that has troubled you ... comes from one very serious source. Without wanting to be in conflict with the truth and with the will of God, we are actually going against God's will and His teaching.

Whoso hearkens not to God's voice, is an idolator, though he perform the highest and most heavy service of God.

It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.

The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.