Quotes about Obedience
You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.
— Joyce Meyer
Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.
— Oswald Chambers
The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.
— William Booth
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.
— Hudson Taylor
If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.
— William Carey
Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.
— Henry Blackaby
God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
— Charles Stanley
As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
— Watchman Nee
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.
— Henry Blackaby
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.
— Aldous Huxley