Quotes About Obedience

As ambassadors of Jesus Christ, they were consumed with the task given to them by God. Any authority and influence they had were not their own, or even connected to their brilliance or dynamic leadership strategies. Rather, they were servants of the King. Their allegiance was to his priorities, and they discerned the many ways they could walk in obedience to show and share the gospel in a world of great need.

This leads us to an important spiritual principle for growth: comeback leaders know that our Lord considers commitment to Him and His desires an indispensable ingredient to growing spiritually and numerically.

God does not bless us so we can enjoy a prosperous lifestyle but to make His way known throughout the earth.

The impetus for our mission task is to understand that everything we are—everything that happens to us and everything that we do—is to align us with the kingdom purpose for God to be exalted among the nations.

To play it safe is the most risky decision we could make. To risk is the safest decision we can make with God. No matter the short-term implications, we must obey God with reckless abandon.

Growth happens in community because the Bible places community as a critical step of obedience for the Christ follower. So the Christ follower outside of community is living in disobedience.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie.

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

It is the love of the [British] people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you both your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.

God's purpose was not simply to deliver Israel from Pharoah's yoke. It was to bring them under His yoke.

Y como Rita no es tonta aplica aquella de más vale cabeza de ratón que cola de león, y en consecuencia cría éste ratón en el que las empleadas y sus sobrinas somos un cuerpo más o menos obediente o, por lo menos, susceptibles a sus censura.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

obedience is such a fundamental habit of the contemporary American mind that any kind of disobedience is regarded as a form of insanity.

His Master's Voice.

Hewers of wood and drawers of water.

Take out the papers and the trashOr you don't get no spending cash;If you don't scrub that kitchen floor,You ain't gonna rock 'n' roll no more.Yakety yak, don't talk back.

Remember Lot's wife.

Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?

Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only.

Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it… and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah.

I beseech you therefore, brethren… that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.