Quotes About Obedience

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

If I win, I win, and if I lose, I win because my responsibility is to obey God and to leave the consequences up to him.

I'd always follow Nixon's orders, but you can't order somebody to be happy.

For we should read God's word not for what we can get out of it, not for what it will do for us, but for what it will teach us to do for our God.

For deep inside we know that obedience to the Scriptures without concern for consequences is penetrating and painful. It requires us to die to self and follow Christ. It demands that we recognize the sin in our lives and that we acknowledge and repent of that sin.

It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our sucess; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements. He demands our obedience.

The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.

Love requires a more unlimited Obedience from its Slaves, than any other Monarch can expect from his Subjects; an Obedience which is circumscrib'd by no Laws whatever, and dependent upon nothing but itself.

The duty hardest to fulfil, To learn to yield our own self-will.

You're supposed to be cooperating." "I am cooperating." "Wear the hat." "I'm not wearing the hat.

Thank you for all the ways you have provided for my needs, physically, spiritually, emotionally, and relationally. Help me to respond with thanksgiving and with obedience to your principles and your will.

8. Surrender means trusting Him.

In his disobedience, your brother is alive. You, in your resentful subservience, are dead. Do you think God wants mindless worshippers who can only follow instructions?

Aries: "I was going to do that but then you told me to."

She-who-must-be-obeyed.

I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

Without discipline, Religion would be impossible

There are only four possible states in which the human being can live, according to revealed sources. A person is either receiving blessings (ni?mah) or tribulations (bal?') from God; or is either living in obedience (???ah) to God or in disobedience (ma??iyyah).

Kenneth Copeland: «Como creyente, tiene usted derecho a dar órdenes en el nombre de Jesús. Cada vez que se apoya en la Palabra, está ordenando a Dios hasta cierto nivel porque es Palabra de Él» (Our Covenant with God [KCP Publications, 1987], p. 32).

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

Eva, I am orderin' ye to go." "Well, you can order all you bloody like, my lord husband, but I will not leave your side until I get the bleeding stopped," she snapped and Connall gaped at her, unable to believe his sweet, witty, lovely little bride had spoken to him so. Were wives not supposed to obey their husbands? He was sure he recalled that in the wedding ceremony. "Come

Whenever you are willing to obey me, Much-Afraid, and to follow the path of my choice, you will always be able to hear and recognize my voice, and when you hear it you must always obey. Remember also that it is always safe to obey my voice, even if it seems to call you to paths which look impossible or even crazy.

Imam gospodaricu koju sam dužan da slušam, ona vlada mnom, vama, svetom, ?ak i ovim današnjim svetom napolju, a ta gospodarica je pravda. U nju sam oduvek verovao, verujem i danas, i pravda je jedini putokaz mog postupanja...

The word of God can require something of me today that it did not require yesterday; this means that, if I am to hear this challenge, I must be fundamentally open and listening.