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Quotes About Obedience

Faith never knows where it is being led, or it would not be faith. True faith is content to travel under sealed orders.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.
~ Alan Redpath
Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.
~ Thomas Jefferson
When the Lord opens a door, walk through it. If He doesn't, just trust.
~ Kari Jobe
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
You can never rely on a horse that is educated by fear. There will always be something that he fears more than you. But, when he trusts you, he will ask you, what to do when he is afraid.
~ Antoine de Pluvinel
There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.
~ Klaus Balkenhol
The most beloved manifestation of obedience to God is trust in Him
~ Ibn Ata Allah
What is courage? It is the ability to be strong in trust, in conviction, in obedience. To be courageous is to step out in faith - to trust and obey, no matter what.
~ Kay Arthur
It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.
~ Daniel Ellsberg
When we have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, we must have trust in him. We must trust him enough that we are content to accept his will, knowing that he knows what is best for us.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
~ Ed Townsend
God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
~ Francis Chan
Trust God, and do the next thing.
~ Oswald Chambers
Obedient people never trust in themselves.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
All you have to do is trust your Heavenly Father. Trust Him enough to follow His plan.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'
~ Tullian Tchividjian
Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will.
~ Jerry Bridges
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.
~ Edmund Burke
My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
~ Chris Hayes
This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.
~ Jack London
Trust always defeats every rebellion
~ Sunday Adelaja
The Lord has called me to obedience, though not always to success.
~ Jonathan Mark Covey