Quotes About Obedience

May God grant children who will fear and revered Him.

An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.

As Christians, we are not to beg for signs and wonders but, to command them all the time and not some of the time.

God prefers your health and your obedience to your penance.

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

You must flow with the will of God, in the service of God, to obtain the power of God.

Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience.

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.

Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

...,the will of God for your life is pretty straightforward: Be holy like Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of God.

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.

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around

What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?

Christian philosophy has, like the Hebrew, uniformly attributed moral and physical evil to the action of created free will. Man has himself brought about the evil from which he suffers by transgressing the law of God, on obedience to which his happiness depended. . . . The errors of mankind, mistaking the true conditions of its own well-being, have been the cause of moral and physical evil.28

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

The problem is that "bad men obey their lusts as servants obey their masters," and because they cannot control their desires, they can never find contentment.4

in the course of trying to train a horse, we punish him, it should be because we want him to obey us in the future, not because we are angry about his failure to obey us in the past.

Grant that the voice of our own desires may not be speaking so insistently that we become deaf to your word.