Quotes about Obedience
When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.
— Hudson Taylor
If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.
— William Carey
Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.
— Henry Blackaby
God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
— Charles Stanley
As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
— Watchman Nee
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.
— Henry Blackaby
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.
— Aldous Huxley
It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.
— Stormie Omartian
God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.
— Johannes Tauler
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
— St. Augustine
Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
— AW Tozer