Quotes about Obedience
Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.
- James Faust
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.
- Charles Hodge
...,the will of God for your life is pretty straightforward: Be holy like Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of God.
- Kevin DeYoung
To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.
- John Owen
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around
- Will Rogers
Grant that the voice of our own desires may not be speaking so insistently that we become deaf to your word.
- William Barclay
Jesus is to God as we must be to Jesus.
- William Barclay
To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.
- William Carey
Secondly, If the command of Christ to teach all nations be confined to the apostles, then all such ordinary ministers who have endeavoured to carry the gospel to the heathens, have acted without a warrant, and run before they were sent.
- William Carey
What openings of providence do we wait for? We can neither expect to be transported into the heathen world without ordinary means, nor to be endowed with the gift of tongues, &c. when we arrive there. These would not be providential interpositions, but miraculous ones. Where a command exists nothing can be necessary to render it binding but a removal of those obstacles which render obedience impossible, and these are removed already.
- William Carey
Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.
- David Brainerd