Quotes about Obedience

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.

The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

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.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

Believers have both the authority to do God's will because of their position in Christ, and the power to do God's will as long as they walk by the Spirit.

God, however, has not called us to produce fruit, only to bear it as we abide in Christ.

Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' choir at the local Episcopal church. But I got the clear message that I was supposed to learn music there, and not pay too much attention to the rest of it, and I followed those instructions very carefully.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, cheek it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in prayer.