Quotes about Obedience
Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
— Billy Sunday
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
— Teresa of Avila
The gospel is a message of peace. Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth.
— Ellen White
Give what you command, and command what you will.
— St. Augustine
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
— Teresa of Avila
Arbitrary governing hath no alliance with God.
— Samuel Rutherford
Beware of license to the flesh, under the coat of liberty of the Spirit; and let none thinke that law-curses, looseth us from all law-obedience; or that Christ hath cryed down the tenne commandments; and that Gospel-liberty is a dispensation for law-loosenesse; or that free grace is a lawless Pope.
— Samuel Rutherford
what can ail faith, seeing Christ suffereth Himself (with reverence to Him be it spoken) to be commanded by it; and Christ commandeth all things.
— Samuel Rutherford
Every time we give in to selfishness and say "No" to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.
— Pope Francis
If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.
— Joyce Meyer
Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.
— Oswald Chambers
When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.
— Oswald Chambers