{"quotes":[{"text":"Obedience is an act of faith disobedience is the result of unbelief. ","author":"Edwin Louis Cole","tags":["obedience","disobedience","act "],"id":8529,"author_id":"Edwin+Louis+Cole"},{"text":"Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It might be good if we stop using the terms victory and defeat to describe our progress in holiness. Rather, we should use the terms obedience and disobedience. When I say I am defeated by some sin, I am unconsciously slipping out from under my responsibility. I am saying something outside of me has defeated me. But when I say I am disobedient, that places the responsibility for my sin squarely on me. We may in fact be defeated, but the reason we are defeated is because we have chosen to disobey. We need to brace ourselves up and to realize that we are responsible for thoughts, attitudes, and actions. We need to reckon on the fact that we died to sin's reign, that it no longer has any dominion over us, that God has united us with the risen Christ in all His power and has given us the Holy Spirit to work in us. Only as we accept our responsibility and appropriate God's provisions will we make any progress in our pursuit of holiness.","author":"Jerry Bridges","tags":["compromise","disobedience","rebellion","sin"],"id":18119,"author_id":"Jerry+Bridges"},{"text":"The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["adversity","arrogance","development","disobedience","ego","experience","failures","fortunate","humility","intelligence","knowledge","learning","mistakes","obedience","pain","pride","reaching","rebellion","sentenced","stranded","stubbornness","suffering","taught","teach","teachable","tragedy","unfortunate","unteachable","wisdom"],"id":21194,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"If now we attend to ourselves on occasion of any transgression of duty, we shall find that we in fact do not will that our maxim should be universal law, for that is impossible for us; on the contrary, we will that the opposite should remain a universal law, only we assume the liberty of making an exception in our own favor or (just for this time only) in favor of our inclination. Consequently, if we considered all cases from one and the same point of view, namely, that of reason, we should find a contradiction in our own will, namely, that a certain principle should be objectively necessary as a universal law, and yet subjectively should not be universal, but admit of exceptions. As, however, we at one moment regard our action from the point of view of a will wholly conformed to reason, and then again look at the same action from the point of view of a will affected by inclination, there is not really any contradiction, but an antagonism of inclination to the precept of reason, whereby the universality of the principle is changed into mere generality, so that the practical principle of reason shall meet the maxim half way. Now, although this cannot be justified in our own impartial judgement, yet it proves that we do really recognize the validity of the categorical imperative and (with all respect for it) only allow ourselves a few exceptions which we think unimportant and forced from us.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["disobedience","making-excuses","rationalization","sin"],"id":22886,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"When you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of your life is restricted and directed by the rule and the ruling.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["caught-by-the-law","disobedience","freedom","freedom-of-choice","freedom-of-expression","freedom-of-speech","life","obeying-rules","reasons-why","rules","rules-and-regulations","rules-to-live-by","staying-focused"],"id":28972,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.","author":"Mae West","tags":["ambition","disobedience","empowerment","girls","goodness","naughty","promiscuity","risque","self-determination","wickedness","women"],"id":29752,"author_id":"Mae+West"},{"text":"The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["disobedience","laws","obey","wise-words"],"id":41411,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from religious experience: when religious authorities began to insist on the literal truth of scripture, they were effectively promoting a kind of secular rationalism that states that one does not need to have a religious experience of any kind to live a moral life: all one has to do is declare one’s faith in scripture, in the doctrine of Jesus’ divinity and such, and accept the authority of the Holy Catholic Church as God’s representative on Earth.","author":"Daniel Waterman","tags":["ity","catholic-church","disobedience","faith","moral-life","origin-myth","rationalism","religious-experience","scripture","truth"],"id":51076,"author_id":"Daniel+Waterman"},{"text":"...Wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...","author":"John Geddes","tags":["ity","defiance","disobedience","society","willfulness"],"id":60637,"author_id":"John+Geddes"},{"text":"The Christian living in disobedience also lives devoid of joy and hope. But when he begins to understand that Christ has delivered him from the reign of sin, when he begins to see that he is united to Him who has all power and authority and that it is possible to walk in obedience, he begins to have hope, and as he hopes in Christ, he begins to have joy. In the strength of this joy, he begins to overcome the sins that have so easily entangle him. He then finds that the joy of a holy walk is infinitely more satisfying than the fleeting pleasures of sin. But to experience this joy, we must make some choices. We must choose to forsake sin, not only because it is defeating to us but because it grieves the heart of God.","author":"Jerry Bridges","tags":["disobedience","holiness","joy","sin"],"id":60688,"author_id":"Jerry+Bridges"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}