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"Ascend, I follow thee, safe guide, the path Thou leadst me, and to the hand of heavn submit."
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Obedience"Your wish is my command, Master."
Obedience, in human behavior, is a form of "social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure". Obedience is generally distinguished from compliance, which some authors define as behavior influenced by peers while others use it as a more general term for positive responses to another individual's request, and from conformity, which is behavior in
"Ascend, I follow thee, safe guide, the path Thou leadst me, and to the hand of heavn submit."
"We do speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing."
"It fits thee not to ask the reason why, Because we bid it."
"Obedience is the mother of success, the wife of safety."
"O that we could take that simple view of things, as to feel that the one thing which lies before us is to please God! What gain is it to please the world, to please the great, nay, even to please those whom we love, compared with this? What gain is it to be applauded, admired, courted, followed,—compared with this one aim of "not being disobedient to the heavenly vision?"
"I find the doing of the will of God, leaves me no time for disputing about His plans."