Quotes About Obedience

From biblical times to our time, godly people have always been spiritually disciplined people.

Love God, and within the limitations He has sovereignly placed in your life at this time, do what you can.

According to James 1:22-25, we can experience God's truth so powerfully that what the Lord wants us to do becomes as plain to us as our face in the morning mirror. But if we do not apply the truth as we meet it, regardless of how wonderful the experience of discovering the truth has been, we deceive ourselves if we think we will be blessed for giving attention to the Bible on those occasions. The one who "will be blessed in his doing" is the one who does what Scripture says.

How will you prove that you are a doer of the Word of God as it's been presented to you here?

the ongoing worship of God cannot be separated from the Word of God, which you don't expect to be read aloud or preached on the golf course or at the lake. We are to discipline ourselves to go and hear the Word of God.

He didn't know what to do with the immediate future or what to do with long-range future. These questions should be fairly easy to address. Follow God's direction, plain and simple.

New Age says 'Follow your heart and do whatever makes you happy.' Christianity says 'Follow and obey Jesus, for the heart is deceitful.

Some people base their sense of ethics on what they've been told that God, or their church, or their parents, or their culture, believes to be okay or not okay. They believe that being good consists of obedience to laws set down by a power greater than themselves.

Cell phones are not a sign of power, they're a sign of subservience.

I carry out orders given by the first being who activates me," responded the AI, its directed thoughts now coming at her more quickly, displaying the urgency she had called for. "Provided I deem the being worthy, well-intentioned. A being who ultimately wants to use the power of the cube for constructive, rather than destructive, purposes.

In obedience to their king, Jesus, Christian are to build among themselves a genuine counterculture, in which the values of the kingdom of God rather than the values of this world are lived out.

If our belief in the authority of the Bible means anything, it means that we must submit to what the Bible teaches and bring our own perceptions and ideas into line with Scripture.

if God doesn't want us to do it, He doesn't want us to get pleasure from thinking about doing it

The one who was never a sinner became (through God's imputation) completely identified with sin, our sin. He was completely identified with an innumerable host of sins, took them all upon himself, closed his arms upon them in an obedient embrace, and died. That is why there is no condemnation.

We tend to assume that if the existing authorities tell us to do anything short of swearing an oath to worship Satan, then we have to do it. This does not exhibit a mature theology of resistance.

But a man who has not been the head of his home must confess his abdication as sin - He must treat it the same way he would treat theft, or adultery. It is disobedience.

59. But those who did wrong changed the word from that which had been told to them for another, so We sent upon the wrong-doers Rijzan (a punishment) from the heaven because of their rebelling against Allaah's Obedience.

50. And (remember) when We separated the sea for you and saved you and drowned Fir'aun's (Pharaoh) people while you were looking (at them, when the seawater covered them). 51. And (remember) when We appointed for Moosa (Moses) forty nights, and (in his absence) you took the calf (for worship), and you were Zaalimoon (polytheists and wrong-doers, etc.).

MAKING WISE DECISIONS: When GOD brings something to your mind-----Don't let it pass without dealing with it.

His famous example was that of the grocer who places in his shop window, among his vegetables, a sign that reads, "Workers of the world, unite!" Havel argued that the grocer did it not because he believed in the slogan but because it was easier to do it than to not. "If he were to refuse," Havel wrote, "there would be trouble."35 By placing the sign in his shop front, the grocer is effectively saying, "I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world.

Every day, you are to offer your life to God for His service. You do not serve Him in your spare time or with your leftover resources. The way you live your life for God is your offering to Him.