Quotes about Obedience
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
— CS Lewis
When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.
— Alan Redpath
If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says
— Andy Stanley
The devil would gladly give a Bible to every man and promote obedience to its commands if in exchange we would surrender to him the Gospel
— Paul Washer
The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.
— John Calvin
The secret of the Christian's passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men.
— David Jeremiah
In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.'
— JC Ryle
Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.
— St. Augustine
God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.
— William Barclay
The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.
— G Campbell Morgan
It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.
— Andy Stanley