Quotes about Obedience

Thinking about the deep call of Christ, which was not about winning, but about submission to God, wherever that might lead.

One must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to God's purposes, even to the point of possibly making moral mistakes. One's obedience to God must be forward-oriented and zealous and free, and to be a mere moralist or pietist would make such a life impossible:

God was interested not in success, but in obedience. If one obeyed God and was willing to suffer defeat and whatever else came one's way, God would show a kind of success that the world couldn't imagine. But this was the narrow path, and few would take it.

Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.

Oh, go away,' I said. 'Go to your Third Force and York Harding and the Role of Democracy. Go away and play with plastics.' Later I had to admit that he had carried out my instructions to the letter.

If you want to see a revival, do revival-like things.

Show me your faith without youra works, and I will show you my faith by myb works.