Quotes about Obedience

No matter who we are, God does not adapt to please us; we always have to adapt to him.

Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.

God can do all sorts of things, God does not need me! But He commands me to be like His Son, and that is all.

Just as the earth is a planet in its own right, so each of us is an individual in our own sphere of habitation. We are individuals, but we live in families and communities where order provides a system of harmony that hinges on obedience to principles.

People in obedience to the Lord do not worry, do not fret, do not need to know all of the outcomes before they are willing to commit themselves.

Faith...needs to be matched with action. Belief is not just brain cells in motion. It demands a response. Do we do what we believe? If we believe in a seed, we plant it.

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple.

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).

Direct. IV. Be a good husband to your wife, and a good father to your children, and a good master to your servants, and let love have dominion in all your government, that your inferiors may easily find, that it is their interest to obey you. For interest and self-love are the natural rulers of the world.

remember, you cannot decline and neglect your duty, to your own hurt alone; many will be losers by it as well as you.

When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.

It is one thing to believe in God's power, it is quite another to live your life in obedient response to an all-powerful God.