Obedience Quotes

We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.

The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.

We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

No master can make me swear blind obedience.

Since the success of believers is tied to our knowledge of and obedience to God's Word, the memorizing of portions of the Bible is advisable.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.

Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.

Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance

Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.

The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.

Picking up our Bibles, we should give God our full attention, withhold our opinion until we understand what He is saying, listen without interrupting, and respond with understanding and obedience.

The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

Harmony is the inlet of God into the mind, so that the mind acts in obedience to a law above mind - and that law is unity.

The first great law is to obey.

Obedience decks the Christian most.

I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

Surely the Lord loves, more than anything else, an unwavering determination to obey his counsel.

There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.

True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.

Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated.

This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command.

God honors obedience, and He has distinct plans for us. I think the dreams that God puts in our hearts, we can fulfill. He's equipped us for that.

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.

Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith.

The loving care of Mother Earth is in many quarters replacing the former sense of obedience to the Heavenly Father.