Quotes About Obedience

Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.

Obedience without knowledge is blind, and knowledge without obedience is lame.

If we do not regard God when he speaks to us, he will not regard us when we pray to him.

In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.

What is the duty which God requireth of man? Obedience to his revealed will. It is not enough to hear God's voice, but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honour we owe to God.

He who is called of God, walks directly contrary to what he did before.

O let us look to our ends in obedience; it is possible the action may be right, and not the heart.

Oh, Christian, if you are overspread with this fretting leprosy, you carry the man of sin about you, for you set yourself above God and act as if you were wiser than He, and would sassily prescribe to Him what condition is best for you.

A Christian is commanded to warm-hearted service; he must charge through the whole army of his lusts, every one of which is stronger than Goliath.

To seem to be zealous, if it be not according to the word, is not obedience, but will-worship.

Love is an industrious affection; it sets the head studying for God, hands working, feet running in the ways of his commandments.

It is more honour to serve God, than to have kings serve us.

Evangelical obedience is true in its essence, though not perfect in its degree; and where it comes short, Christ puts his merits into the scales, and then there is full weight.

It is only dogs that never bite their masters.

Las muchedumbres se dejan conducir por el entorno o por las voluntades y deseos de otros que son más fuertes.

I'm man enough to say I'm pussy-whipped," said Eric. "If she showed up here, snapped her fingers, and was like, 'E, it's time to go,' I'd ask no questions and dead-ass bounce, son. I am not ashamed.

It's like training dogs. You want the dog to obey you, but you can't have real respect for a dog that always obeys you. You want a dog that occasionally goes over the wall or bites the postman without your permission; you want to be reminded that you command a subdued yet wild animal, not a crawler. A man should be strong enough to kill you with his bare hands.

The theology that matters is not the theology we profess but the theology we practice.

though my flesh contradict and rebel, yet I will endeavour to govern my life by your direction.

Those are the Big Three: clipboards, orange cones, elf suits. People don't question

God's revelation to Adam did not instruct Noah how to build the ark.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Acting isn't always about the amount of talent you have, or your ability to cry on command. The point is, how well can you take direction? How well can you put aside your own ideas or ego and listen to the ideas of the director and the people above you, while not giving up the passion and drive of that character?

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.