Quotes About Obedience

The wilderness is a test, whether we will walk in the ways of God.

Don't Copy What Someone Is Doing, Copy What God Wants You To Do.

I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.

O Lord gives us grace to obey your great Laws.

Build your life in self-controlpurity, moderation in food and drink, and obedience to the will Divine. and you will have built well !!!!

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

. . . God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best; his State is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er Land and Ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait.

God so commanded, and left that commandSole daughter of his voice; the rest, we liveLaw to ourselves, our reason is our law.

His words… like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.

As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.

Who bestBear his mild yoke, they serve him best: his stateIs kingly; thousands at his bidding speed,And post o'er land and ocean without rest;They also serve who only stand and wait.

A secret dependence upon our prayers, tears, resolutions, repentance and endeavors, prevents us from looking solely and simply to the Savior, so as to ground our whole hope for acceptance upon his obedience unto death, and his whole mediation.

Courtship is indeed a pleasing part of life when there is mutual affection, the consent of friends, the reasonable prospect of an eventual fulfillment, and when it is conducted in obedience to the will and worship of God. But when these concomitants are absent, what we call love becomes the most tormenting and destructive passion that can be named.

Another lawful use of the law is, to consult it as a rule and pattern by which to regulate our spirit and conversation. The grace of God, received by faith, will dispose us to obedience in general, but through remaining darkness and ignorance we are much at a loss as to particulars. We are therefore sent to the law, that we may learn how to walk worthy of God, who has called us to his kingdom and glory; and every precept has its proper place and use.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience...

To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.

Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God.

Knowledge and strategies can be helpful. But knowledge can become an "Ishmael" if you don't put it on the altar.

Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.

When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. Worship, therefore, is the fuel and the goal of missions.8

This sounds very strange. Most of us think serving God is a totally positive thing; we have not considered that serving God may be an insult to him.

The pathway to maturity and to solid biblical food is not first becoming an intelligent person, but becoming an obedient person.