Quotes about Obedience

Disciples are not so much those who follow as those who must follow.

The called-out assembly of God's people, which is subordinated to Christ as its head and coordinated with its fellow members of the body, lives its life by its practical obedience to God's call in Christ.

To believe in Jesus is to bow twice and then to obey forever

but conformity to the will and the way of Jesus is life and freedom itself—under his authority.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.

When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty power.