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Quotes About Obedience

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God's Word.
~ David Jeremiah
We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves
~ Elisabeth Elliot
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
~ Oswald Chambers
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
~ Dallas Willard
There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.
~ Philip Neri
When you come before spiritual master, be prepared to get chastised. Spiritual Master's business is to do that. Shisya means who is ready is accept 'sashan' or ready dor getting chastisement.
~ Bhakti Charu Swami
In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.
~ Richard J. Foster
True conversion occurs as you continue to act upon the doctrines you know are true and keep the commandments, day after day, month after month.
~ Bonnie L. Oscarson
...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.
~ Bede Griffiths
In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand.
~ M. Russell Ballard
Spiritual illumination and perspective are poured out through the windows of heaven and into our lives as we honor the law of tithing.
~ David A. Bednar
Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Heaven will ask things of you at some point, perhaps small things at first. You must be ready.
~ Marshall Vian Summers
A spiritual Christian should welcome any burden which the Lord brings his way.
~ Watchman Nee
Faith in Christ makes one a regenerated believer; obedience to the Holy Spirit makes him a spiritual believer.
~ Watchman Nee
Make the decision to do what Jesus Christ has asked you to do.
~ M. Russell Ballard
Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our Spiritual Master, we will not understand what is the mercy of Krishna and how it is coming upon us.
~ Radhanath Swami
Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.
~ L. Tom Perry
A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.
~ D. Todd Christofferson
There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
~ Boyd K. Packer