Quotes about 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.

No child, not even the most ordinary, forgets or forgives a single one of the commands inflicted on it.

If I were to refuse to obey orders I should betray my living friends. And the living have more rights over us than the dead. You told me that yourself. Therefore choose life, it is written in the Scriptures. I have espoused the cause of the living, and that is no betrayal.

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.