Quotes About Obedience

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.

The difference between where you are and where God wants you to be is equal to the pain you're willing to endure.

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

True prayer is asking God what He wants.

The reason God can't use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.

Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most. Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

God asks today's Christian wives this question: "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord' and not do what I say?" (Luke 6:46). As

17Remember, it is better to suffer for doing good, if that is what God wants, than to suffer for doing wrong!

17Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.

God's plan is defined by him alone. He sets up the terms; we don't. God is not a power we can just use for our benefit. If we want to come to God, we must come on his terms and enter his Kingdom his way. As the one who created us and loves us, God knows how we ought to live. If we try to do things our own way, we are only asking for trouble.

David's final words to his son were a tearful entreaty to observe the Sabbath and the dietary laws. Fanny's final gesture was to sew one hundred American dollars into the seat of Joseph's pants.

Can you believe that? Americans spitting on the men who have sworn to defend them, on the men who've sworn to obey the orders of the elected, civilian government.

The first man stepped up to the open door. All the men had been ordered to look out at the horizon, not straight down, for obvious psychological reasons.

The intimacy you desire with God travels through the connective bond of your obedience to Him.

Lordship is when "What does the Lord want?" trumps, "What do I want?

Praying with an unrepentant heart. The psalmist realized, "If I had cherished sin in my heart, the LORD would not have listened; but God has surely listened and heard my voice in prayer" (Psalm 66:18–19 NIV). Clinging to sin and stiff-arming God makes God stiff-arm us. If you hold on to sin and refuse to confess it, you cannot take full hold on God.

If God is your Father, you can count on the Holy Spirit to open your eyes and illumine His truth. He will burn it into your heart as you read the Bible, ingrain it into your thinking, live it out in obedience, and let Him continually keep you aligned with ultimate reality.

Amar a Dios y hacer Su voluntad es tener éxito en la vida. Punto.

I in obedience to Thy will Thou knowest did submit. It was my duty so to do; O Lord, accept of it.

An humble, faithful life, O Lord, Forever let me walk; Let my obedience testify My praise lies not in talk.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.