Quotes About Obedience

Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. 2 CORINTHIANS 9:13

His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you." JOHN 2:5

Come," [Jesus] said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. MATTHEW 14:29

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. "Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it." MALACHI 3:10

If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. MATTHEW 16:24

But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. 1 JOHN 2:5 – 6

But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him. 1 JOHN 2:5

And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. COLOSSIANS 3:17

Love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. DEUTERONOMY 30:20

Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John replied, "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God. For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard." ACTS 4:18 – 20

In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple. LUKE 14:33

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge enters the mind of the child.

Hazel understood. Being grown up meant doing what grown-ups wanted you to do. it meant sacrificing your imagination for rules. It meant sitting quietly in you chair while your best friend is helicoptered off for emergency eye surgery. It meant letting people say whatever they wanted to you.

What? You don't want any boiled beef tongue? Ha-ha. Eat the fucking tongue. We are the parents, they said, and you are the child.

To look at food and say that it is good will not satisfy a starving man; he must put forth his hand and eat. So to hear the Master's words is not enough; you must do what He says, attending to every word, taking every hint".

Arcade-game characters have no free will. They're programmed to do one thing day in and day out - they don't have a choice in the matter.

I know what hierarchy and discipline mean. Without those, we will never have order and progress.

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.

Prosperity comes to those who observe the law of tithing.

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.