Quotes About Obedience

God instructed Nehemiah to build a wall around Jerusalem to protect its citizens from enemy attack. You see, God is not against building walls!

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

I can't pretend to know what will happen. But I've been called: I've got to go. You know what that's like. You answered the call of your boots.

That's called faith. Trusting God." His voice waffled. "We must be ready to hear from Him and respond, at any moment, no matter what the consequence.

Sentiment would undo her - each of its ties were a tether that would hold her from her purpose. Men, perhaps, might nourish both heart and mind; but for a woman there could be no such luxury. Had not Catherine drowned in the London air while practicing the virtues of love and obedience? How readily the rules of female behavior - gentleness, acquiescence, ever-mindfulness - turned to shackles.

In Scripture, obedience is heavily relational. It's about allegiance and learning to share God's mind. Even the word for obedience comes from a root that indicates "to hear." Only someone who is in relationship with God and is listening to him can obey.

Mehtab Singh, completely cowed, meekly did as he was told.' All 'swaggering about' in the Jullundur area apparently ended after this demonstration by Nicholson of British dominance over Indians

What the spiritual journey is all about is uniting our will with God's will, wanting what He wants, loving what He loves, living a life that in all its aspects honors Him and gives Him glory.

What is necessary is the faith that leads to obedience and to discipleship.

The experience of union in prayer, Teresa makes very clear, is intended to help make more possible the union of our wills with God's will, in a more profound obedience and love.

This is why charity, the mother, has given obedience patience as a sister and has so joined the two together that the one can never be lost without the other. Either you have both or you have neither.

Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few…. Not everyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord," shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. (Matt 7:13–14, 21)

I wish you to place your division across this road, and I wish you to get there

God would not allow Adam and Eve to eat of the forbidden tree, even though it was good for food, pleasant to the eye and to be desired to make one wise (Gen. 3).

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

The faith that stand on authority is not faith.

Expository preaching will impact your life. It can help you grow personally in knowledge and obedience by your disciplined exposure to God's Word conserve time and energy used in choosing a sermon for each week balance your area of "expertise" and preferred topics with the breadth of God's thoughts in the Bible

War is the health of the state. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense.

tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.

faith acted upon in obedience brings the miraculous.

we are to teach the disciples to obey (do) everything Jesus commanded the twelve disciples to do. This is discipleship; not just studying the Bible,