Obedience Quotes
God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners.
In the Upper Room and on Calvary's hill, Jesus teaches us that the most important aspects of a well-lived life are love, humility and obedience.
People love to quote that Jesus is love, yet they neglect to mention that He's also King. If you love the King, you will obey Him.
Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God's statutes and nothing else.
Greatness is obedience to what Jesus said, to the commission to go to the ends of the earth. It means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".
Sometimes while waiting for God's promises to come to pass, we messed up things and go into so many troubles, but God’s mercy has never failed in bringing us out of them all.
True faith in God through Jesus Christ, must be manifested with fearless spirit and obedience to God's law. Joshua 1:1-11
When you submit yourself to God and obey Him, you allow Him to do what He desires in your life. You make it possible for Him to lead you wherever He wants to use you.
Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence.
An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.
Loving ourselves is not some frothy sentiment. Nor is it an egotistical self-centerdness. It is obedience, obedience to the commandments of God that have to do with self.
We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.
You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but it's still there, like dry tinder waiting for a spark.
You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone.
Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right.
All the social ills thatlaw presumes to correct exist because people are not free tolearn and grow.
Encourage obeying "all the way, right away, and in a happy way.
Obedience requires knowing God’s word, His expectations and then actually living them out.
In your walk with Christ, you shall meet crises, but, when crises arise, remember Christ!
The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try to reproduce it, so far as possible, in his daily life?
To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.
But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.
It is not the importance of the thing, but the majesty of the Lawgiver, that is to be the standard of obedience.~Andrew Bonar~
If you have the blessings of Abraham in your life, then you should also have his obedience, humility and ability to submit to others
The law is not meant to be obeyed only when it favors you and you are comfortable with it, it is also to be obeyed when it does not favor you or you're not comfortable with it.
By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.
We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.
to love is to destroy and that to be loved is the one to be destroyed
There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.
The system is like a vampire where you must give it permission to enter through your obedience.
This, then, is true liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At the same time, it is also devoted service in obedience to righteous precept.
Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A sworn sworn owes his liege our service and obedience, but this is madness.
People often find comfort in ignorance of illusions, but rarely find solace in the truth of reality.
Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.
When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.
My focus was on trying to figure out what God wanted be to do next. Their (his parents') focus was on what I was doing for God at the moment.
There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.