Quotes about Obedience
Discipline will never bring about love for God, but love for God will bring about discipline.
— Matt Chandler
We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.
— Joshua Harris
You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.
— CS Lewis
Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.
— Stephen Covey
Trying to obey and serve God before we've come to love Him can be exhausting.
— Beth Moore
What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him.
— Henry Blackaby
I'd learned that you can't wear a crown unless you bear a cross - that if our Savior had learned obedience through suffering, we should expect the same.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
— Joseph Addison
And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.
— Joseph Addison
Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.
— Joseph Alleine
Each act of obedience by the Christian is a modest proof, unequivocal for all its imperfection, of the reality of what he attests.
— Eugene Peterson