Sentence examples for voluntary obedience from inspiring English sources
The Christian community understood faith active in love primarily in terms of voluntary obedience rather than emotion and applied this understanding to every aspect of life, including sexuality, marriage, and family.
Voluntary obedience and common consent, together with the peace and unity which they produce, are secured by the efficient operation of these three instruments (Politica IV.9).
And even when membership and obedience are voluntary, no group is exempt from ethical scrutiny.
He must know or ought to know, in other words, that others can reasonably interpret his voluntary residence as committing him to obedience to the laws of the state.
"Voluntary servitude" is the course that La Boétie recommends: obedience to the state or Church, with the inner understanding that this is a course we've chosen from social prudence, not from personal conviction.
Because taken as a whole, civic groups are not the same as an organization as defined in the authoritarian sense, having neither leader nor hierarchy, orders or obedience, discipline or punishment, and in contrast are based fully on the voluntary coming together of free citizens.
(a) Unquestioning obedience.
"Obedience comes from listening".
OBEDIENCE, by Will Lavender.
