Quotes About Obedience

Moving like a rat in its maze. Programmed. Performing a function that it was not capable of understanding, on behalf of people whose entire existence was outside its knowledge, detected only as feet occasionally planted in its way.

They're up here, and they're lost. Once their obedience to Earth gave them meaning, and then their struggle against it, but now they don't know what to do. They're too distracted by their structures. They got their independence, but they don't know what it means, and they're looking for the things that will give it meaning.

The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

Faith requires at times marching into the waters before they part.

Baptism is faith in action.

Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

Attempting to follow Him without denying the self is the root of all failures.

The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.

We often try all of our strategies for life, but it is interesting that when God orchestrates our lives and puts us into an imprisoned situation that we can't get out of, we learn what it means to be yielded to Jesus Christ.

In the information age in which we live, technology has a way of selling us on convenience. If something can't be done electronically, we are not interested in doing it. But the bottom line for effective ministry must never be our own convenience. It takes blisters, commitment, and a willingness to go wherever the Lord leads us to get it done. This may be a foreign concept to some leaders;

We won't be held accountable for how much we have done, but for how much we have done of what He has asked us to do.

If Consequences has a back-end price, Wisdom has a front-end price. It requires discipline, obedience, consistency, and above all else, time. Then it gladly pours on you its promised tremendous riches.

The question is never ''Does God speak?'' but rather ''Am I listening?'' To best hear what God has to say to you, you must still your heart. Set aside your pressing demands. Turn off all your electronic distractions. Rarely does God shout to make himself heard!

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.

Religion survives by telling us we need to fall in line or some horrible fate will befall us.

God seldom gives us all we need in order to understand, but He always gives us all we need to obey.

We must remember in our struggles that our duty lies outside of trying to understand God's plan. He never asks that of us. Instead, He wants to see our trust in Him, through simple daily obedience, even in a land of affliction and confusion.

He seldom gives us all we need in order to understand, but He always gives us all we need to obey.

I will never deny my King.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

7. Works done by unregenerate men, although for the matter of them they may be things which God commands; and of good use both to themselves and others: yet, because they proceed not from an heart purified by faith; nor are done in a right manner,according to the Word; nor to a right end, the glory of God, they are therefore sinful, and cannot please God, or make a man meet to receive grace from God: and yet, their neglect of them is more sinful and displeasing unto God.

We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.

Behold, A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns; Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him. But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one

But this was the army. Useful or not, there was a routine to be followed and orders to be obeyed.