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Quotes about Obedience

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.
— Oswald Chambers
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
— Oswald Chambers
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
— Joseph Addison
Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.
— J. Gresham Machen
One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.
— J. Oswald Sanders
A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline -- who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices -- do not qualify to lead.
— J. Oswald Sanders
The world really does not matter, but God has made it so, and so it matters in God, and He Hath Aims for it, which we cannot know without the understanding of obedience. There is nothing to do but give praise. This is my ethic of "art" and why so.
— Jack Kerouac
Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?
— Charles Spurgeon
The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.
— Jerry Falwell
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
— Hudson Taylor
If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.
— David Jeremiah