Voluntary Obedience Quotes

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . . We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see

If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.

As God is the only worthy object of all religious worship, and nothing can be true religion but a voluntary obedience unto His revealed will … every person has an unalienable right to act in all religious affairs according to the full persuasion of his own mind, where others are not injured thereby …

No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear..