Quotes about Obedience

They who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers

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.

What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.

As ambassadors of Jesus Christ, they were consumed with the task given to them by God. Any authority and influence they had were not their own, or even connected to their brilliance or dynamic leadership strategies. Rather, they were servants of the King. Their allegiance was to his priorities, and they discerned the many ways they could walk in obedience to show and share the gospel in a world of great need.

This leads us to an important spiritual principle for growth: comeback leaders know that our Lord considers commitment to Him and His desires an indispensable ingredient to growing spiritually and numerically.

God does not bless us so we can enjoy a prosperous lifestyle but to make His way known throughout the earth.

Growth happens in community because the Bible places community as a critical step of obedience for the Christ follower. So the Christ follower outside of community is living in disobedience.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

God's purpose was not simply to deliver Israel from Pharoah's yoke. It was to bring them under His yoke.

If you pick 'em up, O Lord, I'll put 'em down.

And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee.

Take out the papers and the trashOr you don't get no spending cash;If you don't scrub that kitchen floor,You ain't gonna rock 'n' roll no more.Yakety yak, don't talk back.