Quotes about Obedience

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

We learn about tithing by paying it.

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.

Two words that will change your life: Yes, Lord!

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

You forget you have a master here,'' says the tyrant. ''I'll demolish the first who puts me out of temper! I insist on perfect sobriety and silence. Oh, boy! was that you? Frances, darling, pull his hair as you go by; I heard him snap his fingers.'' 'Frances pulled his hair heartily;

We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world.

Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the Lord gave you the prompting. It makes me feel good that the Lord even knows who I am and knows me well enough to know that if He has an errand to be run, and He prompts me to run the errand, the errand will get done.