Quotes about Obedience

The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

Mary's life shows that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are the most humble.

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.

God has never given a dream that could be fulfilled at step one. So start walking, be obedient, and watch God fulfill that dream in your life.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

Sire—I have received an order, under your majesty's seal, to put to death all the protestants in my province. I have too much respect for your majesty, not to believe the letter a forgery; but if (which God forbid) the order should be genuine, I have too much respect for your majesty to obey it.

Everything in Scripture has the force of law. What it teaches we are to believe; what it commands, we are to do. We should take its wisdom to heart, imitate its heroes, laugh at its jokes, trust its promises, and sing its songs.

Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

All that the Lord thy God commands thee to do, that do thou to the Lord thy God: add nothing to it, diminish nothing from it.' By this rule, think I, the Kirk of Christ will measure God's religion, and not by that which seems good in their own eyes.

Our conduct is not the basis for our salvation, but is influenced by our salvation.

Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.