Quotes about Obedience
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
But let us keep in mind Philippians 2:13: "It is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure." When your will is combined with God's will, He gives you the power to do what your will is telling you you ought to do. You are not fighting this battle alone. You have tremendous power available to you in Christ.
— Tony Evans
a man is defined biblically as "a male who has learned to submit his maleness to the lordship of Jesus Christ.
— Tony Evans
In God's economy, the way up the ladder is down it. The rise to celebrity starts on your knees with a basin, a towel, and a humble heart.
— Tony Evans
Faith is directly tied to an action done in response to a revealed truth.
— Tony Evans