Quotes About Obedience

Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God.

The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.

All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel.

I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

To have a dutiful family, the father's principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience.

People are unwilling to enforce the laws on the books. Instead, they make more laws. Why can't we get this right?

The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.

Give your hands to Him for His work, your feet to walk His path, and your ears to hear Him speak.

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.

Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.

Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.

A successful Christian life will not be based on how much work we have done, but rather, on how close to the Lord we have become and how obedient we have been.

Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.

In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One.

It is not enough to do God's work; it must be done in His way and for His credit.

We work because we have not seen the work of Christ.

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

I can't expect God's blessing on my work unless I do it God's way.

It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

He who eats my bread, does my will.

Surely, in the work of the Lord, it is what we do after we think we have done enough that really counts with him, for that's when the blessings flow.

I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.'