Quotes About Obedience

Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" – Mark 4:39

You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy. – Leviticus 19:2

Proverbs 7:1, 3: "Treasure my commands. . . . Write them on the tablet of your heart.

elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. – 1 Peter 1:2

Enoch walked with God . . .                          Ã¢â'¬â€œ Genesis 5:22

I wholly followed the LORD my God. – Joshua 14:8

Wherever you send us we will go. – Joshua 1:16

That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. – Philippians 2:10

So when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all and followed Him. – Luke 5:11

Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come. – Revelation 14:7

We must serve Him with gladness and come into His presence with singing. Commentator Matthew Henry called joy the "oil on the wheels of our obedience.

Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God. – Leviticus 20:7

O LORD , truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant. – Psalm 116:16

2 Chronicles 7:14 [If] My people who are called by My name humble themselves, pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. – Revelation 14:4

Then I said, "Here am I! Send me." – Isaiah 6:8

If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. – John 15:9–10

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers. Will you not draw from that the fine maxim that one should not scold children too much but should make them trustful, so that they will not conceal their stupidities from us?

We cannot enjoy power in the priesthood until we learn to act by faith.

I had not been thinking or speaking of the Chinese or the heathen world, but as I awoke with that vision on my mind, I did tremble with the Holy Spirit, and I threw myself on my knees, and every fiber of my being answered, "Yes, Lord, I will go."22

Let there be light! said God, and there was light! Let there be blood! says man, and there's a sea!

A rule says, "You must do it this way." A principle says, "This works … and has through all remembered time." The difference is crucial. Your work needn't be modeled after the "well-made" play; rather, it must be well made within the principles that shape our art. Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

Hablando en serio: los que obedecen suelen ser una copia exacta de los que mandan.

The best-trained part of us, though, is the mouth, it ?is always obediently and devoutly shut. And it's only too true: an open mouth is a yawning fact, the fact that its owner is dwelling with his few thoughts in some other place than the domain and pleasure-garden of attentiveness.