Obedience Quotes
Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.
Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!
Our love for Christ is more important to Him than all of our service to Him. Strict obedience and services are not enough. Love for Jesus must come first.
Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.
He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience.
He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.
Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.
I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.
We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction
I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, joined by the bond of the covenant.
The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we drink deeply of the Bible, which is God's word outside of us
It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and servility toward themselves, but also in adoration.
True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.
You don’t obey your way into faith (the Pharisees proved that); you believe your way into obedience.
Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.
Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.
When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.
The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.
Obedience is the pathway to blessing. It’s the means of protection. It’s the means of joy. It’s the means to finding God’s best in our lives.
Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.
It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.
When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God's Word.
Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.
Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.
Those who walk in radical obedience have made themselves ready for the storm, and they will overcome.
Yesterday's partial obedience creates staggering consequences in today's experiences.
The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.
When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.
The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.