Quotes about Obedience

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around

Grant that the voice of our own desires may not be speaking so insistently that we become deaf to your word.

Jesus is to God as we must be to Jesus.

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

Secondly, If the command of Christ to teach all nations be confined to the apostles, then all such ordinary ministers who have endeavoured to carry the gospel to the heathens, have acted without a warrant, and run before they were sent.

What openings of providence do we wait for? We can neither expect to be transported into the heathen world without ordinary means, nor to be endowed with the gift of tongues, &c. when we arrive there. These would not be providential interpositions, but miraculous ones. Where a command exists nothing can be necessary to render it binding but a removal of those obstacles which render obedience impossible, and these are removed already.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

Storms are not punishment for lack of obedience; oftentimes they are the result of obedience!

Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

If a commission by an earthly king is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.