Quotes about Obedience

It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

Man is the only creature which rises by bowing for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.

True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

I pray, and I obey.

Forgive me for not being willing to hear your call until now, dear Lord. But I am here and I am ready. Direct me to where I should next go. Reveal to me how I should next serve you. Grant me the wisdom and the strength to trust you in all things. Wherever you lead. Whatever task you set. Help me, Lord.

Go into all the world and preach the gospel.' " Martha nodded slowly. "So the challenge is to do that without getting in the way of the message." Alban added, "He must increase. I must decrease".

Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.