Quotes about Obedience

To move from your way of thinking or acting to God's way of thinking or acting will require fundamental adjustments.

For with God, there's always another role to undertake, a fresh assignment, and another task that will call upon everything we've experienced and learned thus far. God is never finished with us. He may, however, be finished with our current role. If so, we must be prepared to take on the next assignment that inevitably comes.

If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me, along with all the dear animals in nature who care for their young at great cost to themselves and have suffered so much at the hands of humans.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Jesus' story of the two sons, one who said all the right words, but never acted on these words, and the other who said the wrong words, but in fact "went to work in the vineyard." Jesus said that the person who finally acts and engages "does the Father's will," even if he is a tax collector or she a prostitute and does not have the right "belief system" (Matthew 21:28—32).

The Dalai Lama said much the same thing: "Learn and obey the rules very well, so you will know how to break them properly.

There is a deeper voice of God, which you must learn to hear and obey in the second half of life.

Mere obedience is far too often a detour around actual love. Obedience is usually about cleaning up, love is about waking up.

One side effect of our individualized reading of the Gospel is that it allows the clergy great control over individual behavior, via threats and rewards. Obedience to authorities became the highest virtue in this framework, instead of love, communion, or solidarity with God or others, including the marginalized.

What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him, wherein God, from being a judge, becomes our Father, pardoning our sins and accepting our obedience, though feeble and blemished? We are now brought to heaven under the covenant of grace by a way of love and mercy.

The whole conduct of a Christian is nothing else but knowledge reduced to will, affection and practice.

see 1 Sam. 22:28).