Quotes about Obedience
Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says.
- AW Tozer
We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
- John Calvin
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
- John Stott
If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
- DA Carson
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God's voice.
- Bill Johnson
The best thing we can do is be a servant of God. It does good to stand up and serve others.
- Fred Shuttlesworth
Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.
- Martin Luther
Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
- Oswald Chambers
Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.
- Oswald Chambers
No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.
- Charles Spurgeon