Quotes about Obedience

This is why everyone must "work out" his or her own salvation (see Philippians 2:12).

Getting into God's kingdom comes by way of the process known as conversion, but getting God's kingdom to visibly manifest itself in the daily abundant life comes through your commitment.

To make disciples is to teach people how to keep the faith. One keeps faith by following Jesus' words rather than merely knowing faith's content.

For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God" (Rom. 13:1). God

Christian doctrine is what the church believes, teaches, and confesses as it prays and suffers, serves and obeys, celebrates and awaits the coming of the kingdom of God. —Jaroslav Pelikan

Jack Taylor put it this way: "an idol is something you have to check with before you say yes to God".

There are three keys here that God said would determine his success. First, the Law of God was to be in his mouth. Next, he was to meditate on it day and night. And finally, he was to do all that he was talking about and meditating on.

Sometimes following God means throwing caution to the wind. Sometimes caution is a symptom of faithlessness.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.