Quotes about Obedience

Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity.

What does God's love for me require of me?

Intimate relationships are not built on obedience. They are built on trust. Walking by faith, again, is simply living as if God is who he says he is and that he will do everything he has promised to do. As a person's confidence in God grows, he or she matures.

Participants in the new covenant are not required to obey most of the commandments found in the first half of their Bibles. Participants in the new covenant are expected to obey the single command Jesus issued as part of his new covenant. Namely: As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?

Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

I'm going to France, I'm going to Germany, and I'm going to go wherever God sends me and gives me the strength.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.