Quotes about Obedient
The abuse doesn't take away the proper use. Magic is, in fact, a parody of the truly human vocation. Image-bearing humans, obedient to the Creator, are meant to exercise delegated authority in the world in order that life can flourish.
- NT Wright
But this is not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house.
- Numbers 12:7
And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
- 2 Chronicles 14:2
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
- Isaiah 1:19
Because of the proof this ministry provides, the saints will glorify God for your obedient confession of the gospel of Christ, and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all the others.
- 2 Corinthians 9:13
We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 10:5
Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
- John Ortberg
Agape is an obedient response of availability to God, not a feeling. But, although it is not a feeling, its ultimate end is a feeling.
- Beth Moore
Angels fell away, man's soul fell away, and thereby pointed the abyss in that dark depth, ready for the whole spiritual creation, hadst not Thou said from the beginning, Let there be light, and there had been light, and every obedient intelligence of Thy heavenly City had cleaved to Thee, and rested in Thy Spirit, Which is borne unchangeably over every thing changeable.
- St. Augustine
Baptism, worship attendance, and church involvement are all appropriate, obedient responses to a relationship with God. However, they do not create or replace the relationship.
- Henry Blackaby
Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done for Thee; And our thankful spirits say, "Christ arose on Easter Day."
- Phillips Brooks
Jesus was born of a virgin by the Holy Spirit (Matt. 1:18—20) and "increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man" (Luke 2:52) and was perfectly obedient and sinless in all his life and ministry, all the way to the point of death, even death on a cross (Phil. 2:5—8; Heb. 4:15)—in order to destroy the works of the Devil—to take away sin.
- John Piper