Quotes About Obedience

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

let us desire that not our wills, but His will, be done.74 If we have not progressed as far as this, then, as I have said, let us practise humility, which is the ointment for our wounds; if we are truly humble, God, the Physician,75 will come in due course, even though He tarry, to heal us.

Remember that true humility consists in being ready for what the Lord wants to do with you and happy that he should do it, and in considering yourselves unworthy to be called his servants.

la verdadera humildad está mucho en estar muy prontos en contentarse con lo que el Señor quisiere hacer de ellos, y siempre hallarse indignos de llamarse sus siervos.

As if I were a dog, to follow at your heels.

If God asks that you bend, bend and do not complain. He is making you more flexible, and for this be thankful.

I must have been a really tough kid to corral. I got disciplined quite frequently. I guess that would be the best way to say it. The rod, I wore out the rod. You know, Spare the rod and spoil the child? Well, I wore out the rod.

as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." (Joshua 24:14–15)

God has commanded the sacrifice of praise, and if it doesn't cost you something, it isn't a sacrifice.

Right living isn't about keeping a list of rules, but about knowing God. And the sacrifice of praise is what puts us on the path to knowing Him,

You can either allow the voice of the Lord to break, mold, and conform you to His will, or you can ignore His Word and let the inevitable judgments of life do the job more slowly and painfully. But you will be broken.

are to praise God at all times, whether we feel like it or not. Yet it is precisely at this point that our feelings and wills invariably collide.

Did you ever stop and ask God if your current position is the one He has chosen for you, if where you are now is where He wants you to be? It makes no difference what the salary or working conditions are like; what really matters is, has God called you to that job and place?

You will never arrive at a place where you do not have to submit to anyone. The spirit of an armorbearer is the spirit of Christ. It is the heart of a servant.

Most Christians do not understand the true meaning of submission to authority. The Bible teaches that all authority has been instituted by God Himself, so to refuse to submit to God's delegated authority is to refuse to submit to God.

We must not look at the person, but at the office he occupies. We do not regard the man, but the position. We obey, not the individual himself, but God's authority in him. Anything less than full submission is rebellion, and rebellion is the principle on which Satan and his kingdom operate.

Always remember this: God will never establish you as an authority until you have first learned to submit to authority.

Understanding Authority Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers;

Lord Jesus, do absolutely anything you need to do to me, so that you can do absolutely everything you want to do through me.

The old law vindicated itself by the vengeance of the sword, and plucked out eye for eye, and requited injury with punishment; but the new law pointed to clemency, and changed the former savagery of swords and lances into tranquility, and refashioned the former infliction of war upon rivals and foes of the law into the peaceful acts of ploughing and cultivating the earth. And so . . . the observance of the new law and of spiritual circumcision has shone forth in acts of peaceful obedience.

My God, I choose everything, I will not be a Saint by halves, I am not afraid of suffering for Thee, I only fear one thing, and that is to do my own will. Accept the offering of my will, for I choose all that Thou willest.

Our Lord has deigned to make me understand that by simple obedience I shall please Him best.

In Heaven, God will do all I desire, because on earth I have never done my own will.

unchanging truth, that unless we become as little children in the doing of our Heavenly Father's Will, we cannot enter into our Eternal Home.