Quotes about Allegiance

If I bear the name of another, I have given up my own name and my own independent life.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

Again, if we have any anxiety about our own salvation, we ought to make no peace nor truce with him who is continually laying schemes for its destruction. But such is the character given to Satan in the third chapter of Genesis, where he is seen seducing man from his allegiance to God, that he may both deprive God of his due honour, and plunge man headlong in destruction.

Therefore by the example of Abram, entire self-renunciation is enjoined, that we may live and die to God alone.

Please assure me that you are all Republicans.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

The loyal subject serves not two lords. The chase woman knows no second man.

The thing or person you trust in is actually the object of your worship.

Imagine having drug cravings subdued by the joy of knowing and obeying Christ. Imagine having temptations lose their allure because there is more pleasure in walking humbly with our God. Imagine waking up and strategizing how to please the God who loves you rather than where you will get your next drink. This would be freedom. Sound impossible? It isn't.

Even among those who have no special allegiance to a particular branch of Christianity, there are plenty of seekers as well as agnostics and atheists who harbor a certain curiosity about Jesus and his story.

So Jesus pulls no punches, saying you must "hate" your home base in some way and make choices beyond it.