Quotes about Obedience
People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.
— John Ortberg
A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
— Vince Lombardi
As we're growing closer to God, I ask people to decide when God wants them to stay planted exactly where they are.
— Craig Groeschel
When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.
— Donald Miller
It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.
— Stormie Omartian
God's Will is what we would choose if we knew what God knows.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.
— Thomas Merton
A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It "consents," so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree
— Thomas Merton
In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who strive to bring their own freedom under obedience to His divine purpose. All that is done by the will of God in secret is done for His glory and for the good of those whom He has chosen to share in His glory.
— Thomas Merton
The climate of this prayer is, then, one of awareness, gratitude and a totally obedient love which seeks nothing but to please God.
— Thomas Merton
The "spiritual life" is then the perfectly balanced life in which the body with its passions and instincts, the mind with its reasoning and its obedience to principle and the spirit with its passive illumination by the Light and Love of God form one complete man who is in God and with God and from God and for God. One man in whom God is all in all. One man in whom God carries out His own will without obstacle.
— Thomas Merton
Those who imagine that they can discover special gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.
— Thomas Merton