“If you obey the majority of those on earth, they will lead you astray from God’s way. They follow nothing but conjecture. They are only guessing.”

The magic on you is only magic and will vanish as soon as you are free, but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

The whole day was like that. I wish I could do it justice as I’m writing about it. I feel like I could use all of the words that I have in my head times each and never be able to tell exactly what it was like.

Poetry doesn’t have to rhyme, it just has to touch someone where your hands couldn’t.

Love, hate, what’s the difference?

Focus is more important than intelligence.

She needed a hero, so that’s what she became.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

If a girl is stupid enough to love you after you broke her heart, I guarantee you, she is the one.

Very private people have mastered the art of telling you little about themselves but doing it in such a way you think you know a lot.

You don’t demand respect, you earn it.

If serving is below you, leadership is beyond you.

Books don’t just go with you, they take you where you’ve never been.

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.

Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

You are what you think. All that you are arises from your thoughts. With your thoughts you make your world.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

And which will remain undone and incomplete until by faith and obedience you step into the will of God.

You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

If a woman does not fit the shape of what you think a woman should, if a woman is not obedient, does not see things the way you do, if a woman is too independent to need anything more than herself, does she automatically become a threat filled with such terror to you?

John Calvin comments on today’s passage: God is only rightly served when his law is obeyed. It is not left to every man to frame a system of religion according to his own judgment, but the standard of godliness is to be taken from the Word of God.

Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.

You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.