Quotes about Obedience

The Gospel teaches from what source you receive the power to fulfill the Law.

The Law has a promise but it is a conditional promise, depending upon whether people fulfill the Law.

No matter how insignificant the little office may be, they take a foot though they do not have an inch,73 and always want to be God themselves when they ought to be God's maid.

Works, since they are irrational things, cannot glorify God, although they may be done to the glory of God, if faith be present.

Even if those in authority are evil or without faith, nevertheless the authority and its power is good and from God…. Therefore, where there is power and where it flourishes, there it is and there it remains because God has ordained it.

For my part, if I cannot fathom how the bread is the body of Christ, yet I will take my reason captive to the obedience of Christ [II Cor. 10:5], and clinging simply to his words, firmly believe not only that the body of Christ is in the bread, but that the bread is the body of Christ.

Therefore we are taught here that true vengeance is carried out, not by our passion but by God's command and on account of God. We are only the instruments of the avenging God, and we arrogate nothing of the vengeance to ourselves, as you see here.

God orders us to believe and trust in his goodness, but at the same time, we should never test him. We must take advantage of opportunities that God gives us. If we don't, we aren't living according to his plan. But we must continue to maintain our faith and hope in God.

We cannot have justification urged upon us too often or too much. Even if we learn it and understand it well, none of us grasps it perfectly or believes it with his whole heart. Our flesh is so frail and is often disobedient to the Spirit.

The Lord who has given us power to teach and to hear, let Him also give us the power to serve and to do.

But if you command me to believe or to get rid of certain books, I will not obey; for there you are a tyrant and overreach yourself...

To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law.