Quotes about Obedience

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

I believe orders should be obeyed, but sometimes you have to think about the orders you get.

As we're growing closer to God, I ask people to decide when God wants them to stay planted exactly where they are.

When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.

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.

God's Will is what we would choose if we knew what God knows.

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.

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

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.