Quotes about Obedience

If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.

In active obedience, we worship God by doing what pleases God; but by passive obedience, we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.

Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.

It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does.

God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.

The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.

It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance.

All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and insist on having their own way.

God owes me nothing. He doesn't have to work for anything good in my life. That is only for those who are called according to His purpose.

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey