Character Traits

Obedience

Generic Definition

“complying with an order, request, or law or submission to another's authority”

Biblical Definition

“complying with God's commands and instructions and with every authority He has placed over my life”

Bible Verse

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 'Honor your father and mother' (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 'that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.'”

Ephesians 6:1-3

Notable Quotes

Billy Graham

William Franklin Graham Jr. was an American evangelist and an ordained Southern Baptist minister
“God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient.”
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident
“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.”
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Thomas Jefferson

Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States
“I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.”
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Aiden Wilson Tozer

American Christian pastor
“The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.”
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Charles Spurgeon

“Obedience is the highest practical courage.”
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Downloads

  • Character Trait Report (pdf)
    • Intended to be used on a weekly basis.
    • Students describe how they put the character trait into practice.
    • Parent affirms, signs and dates the document.

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