Quotes about Obedience

First we must understand that when God calls us to do something, we should not say that we cannot do it. If God says we can, then we can! So often we speak out of our insecurities, or we verbalize what others have previously said about us, or what the devil has told us.

We have the faith to do it; but for faith to work, we have to release our faith, and the way we release it is to go in obedience.

If you apply God's word to your life, you will find that it works exactly as He says it will.

When you choose God's will, the Holy Spirit will energize you to live out that decision.

A humble mind enables us to take a back seat and wait for God to move us to the front.

The truth that is variously enacted by such agents is not an idea or a proposition. It is rather a habit of life that simply (!) refuses the totalizing claims of power. The governor, on behalf of the empire, will continue to ask, "What is truth?" And the apostles will continue to give answer, uncommonly unintimidated: "'We must obey God rather than any human authority'" (Acts 5:29).14

One compelling alternative to land theology is the recognition that Judaism consists most elementally in interpretation of and obedience to the Torah in its requirements of justice and holiness.

He became an obedient human person, and because of his passion for God's will for him, he collided with the will and purpose of the Roman Empire and with the Jews who colluded with the empire. He is not crucified because of some theory of the atonement. He is crucified because the empire cannot tolerate such a transformative, subversive force set loose in the world.

to domesticate God and so to curb the freedom that belongs to this erupting God (Exod. 20:4

If one is linked to a flat, one-dimensional faith, then this verse is a bitter loss of faith . But if we think in terms of obedience on its way to risky imagination, then this verse is an opening for new faith beyond the conventions and routines that secure but do not reckon with God's awefulness .

Baptism is faith in action.

Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.