Quotes about Obedience
We are all servants of some sort, and if the fact that we are faithful can be truthfully inscribed on our tombstones, nothing more need be added.
— LM Montgomery
Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.
— Larry Crabb
If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?
— Richard Baxter
Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.
— Mother Teresa
Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.
— Mother Teresa
Just as we are commanded to keep the Sabbath, we are commanded to labor.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The plea is not to obey what He wills but to do what He is.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
— Abraham Lincoln
Remember again the principle: We will never be over those things that God has set under us until we learn to be under those things that God has placed over us. There is strength through surrender.
— Adrian Rogers
God does not look for success as the world understands it. He looks for faithfulness. "Who is that faithful servant?" Success is accomplishing faithfully the task allotted to you by the Lord.
— Derek Prince
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer