Quotes about Obedience

The gospel sweetens the law.

Obedience without knowledge is blind, and knowledge without obedience is lame.

If we do not regard God when he speaks to us, he will not regard us when we pray to him.

In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.

What is the duty which God requireth of man? Obedience to his revealed will. It is not enough to hear God's voice, but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honour we owe to God.

He who is called of God, walks directly contrary to what he did before.

O let us look to our ends in obedience; it is possible the action may be right, and not the heart.

A Christian is commanded to warm-hearted service; he must charge through the whole army of his lusts, every one of which is stronger than Goliath.

To seem to be zealous, if it be not according to the word, is not obedience, but will-worship.

To obey God, is not so much our duty—as our privilege; his commands carry food in the mouth of them. He bids us repent—and why? That our sins may be blotted out. Acts 3:19. He commands us to believe—and why? That we may be saved. Acts 16:31. There is love in every command. It is as if a king should bid one of his subjects dig in a gold mine, and then keep the gold for himself.

Evangelical obedience is true in its essence, though not perfect in its degree; and where it comes short, Christ puts his merits into the scales, and then there is full weight.

God's revelation to Adam did not instruct Noah how to build the ark.