Quotes about Obedience
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus wants men who will rule well.
- Tony Evans
It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.
- AW Tozer
The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
- John Tillotson
No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
- Oswald Chambers
It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not willing now, how can you think you shall be willing hereafter?
- Richard Baxter
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.
- AW Tozer
I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man.
- Joyce Meyer
No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
- Thomas a Kempis
No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
- Thomas a Kempis
The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
- William Barclay
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
- AW Tozer