Quotes about Obedience
We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.
- Jerry Bridges
You ought to marry someone who's willing to go anywhere for God. If they're not, they're out.
- John Piper
The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God
- John Quincy Adams
Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord.
- Leonard Ravenhill
We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Maybe God's goal wasn't for me to raise a good rule-following child. Instead, His goal was for me to raise a God-following adult.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Some believers are faithful in the way that they live, but at the end of the day, they will not share the gospel with as many people as someone else who has special gifts from God.
- Mark Dever
Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.
- Martin Luther
There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don't know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don't delay obedience.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
- Oswald Chambers
God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.
- Oswald Chambers
At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him.
- Oswald Chambers