Quotes About Obedience

The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

5, 6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.

To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.

I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

O Allah, You know that the only thing I want in this life Is to be obedient to Your command. Even the living sight of my eyes Is service at your court

True wisdom always leads us to please God.

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.

If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.

God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.

God does not guide those who want to run their own life. He only guides those who admit their need of His direction and rely on His wisdom.

Beauty is a King that needs to be obeyed

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.

When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.

When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.

Hai finito di mangiare?" "Sì, Maestro, ho finito." "Allora, va' a lavare le stoviglie!