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Quotes about Obedience

God is not interested in making me comfortable or happy. His goal is to make me holy, like His Son. And
— Chris Fabry
When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.
— Tullian Tchividjian
If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will.
— Gordon Hinckley
faith is acting as if God is telling the truth.
— Tony Evans
Oftentimes, what is required on our part is taking a step, making the move, doing the thing that God has asked us to do without the accompanying emotions to go along with it. However, as you continue to walk by faith in the direction God has called you, your emotions are soon to follow.
— Tony Evans
Don't walk headfirst into sin when you know better. But when you fail, as you most surely will, let God use those failures for His glory.
— Tony Evans
Faith means acting on what God says in spite of what you know, your background, your experience, or even your education. Faith is a recognition of your own finiteness in relation to God's infiniteness.
— Tony Evans
The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is disobedience.
— Tony Evans
Kingdom women obey God's Word even when it seems to make no sense. Keep in mind that faith doesn't always make sense. But it does make miracles.
— Tony Evans
Beyond that, God will sometimes take us down a different path or on a different journey than we could have conceived or imagined. The simple phrase we are asked to insert, "If the Lord wills," is pregnant with meaning. It is a statement of surrender under the lordship and rule of God. It is an acknowledgment that our plans are not to be our own. Rather, they are God's to make, and we are to follow.
— Tony Evans
God tells us that when we do not listen to His Son and apply His truth, He will shake up our lives in order to get our attention (see Hebrews 12:10-11).
— Tony Evans
Women who want to please the Lord in their marriages often must ignore the people on the other side of the glass. That's because what God is telling them in His Word may go against what many of their friends are telling them and what the television is telling them. But none of us is here to please the onlookers.
— Tony Evans