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Quotes About Obedience

Always work to cause your horse to follow the path of least resistance. Then place an opening for him to pass through so that the path of least resistance becomes the direction you want him to go in.
~ Monty Roberts
Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either".
~ Charles Spurgeon
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
~ Maria Montessori
You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.
~ Adrian Rogers
I would rather obey than work miracles.
~ Martin Luther
For the provision of God constantly to be at work in our lives we must activate the laws of God.
~ Phil Pringle
In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.
~ Dallas Willard
None shall be saved by Christ but those only who work out their own salvation while God is working in them by His truth and His Holy Spirit. We cannot do without God; and God will not do without us.
~ Matthew Henry
A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.
~ John Wesley
We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.
~ William Jenkyn
Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God's people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.
~ Henry Blackaby
Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions.
~ C. S. Lewis
The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.
~ Ichabod Spencer
I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.
~ Jean Ingelow
We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.
~ John Owen
As soon as I was obedient to just taking a chance on God, all of these things that you're seeing - 'Black Panther' or 'Humans' or 'The Commuter' or Steven Spielberg - it came right after I took that break.
~ Letitia Wright
I want to be a good steward and make sure what's in my heart is what God wants, and then once it's done and released, at that point it's up to God and what he does on the back end.
~ Lauren Daigle
In the Navy, the path is paved for you. Your job is to be a soldier and fit in. As long as you stick to your place, it's actually really easy.
~ Kiesza
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
~ Joel Edgerton
Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!
~ Charles Studd
A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
~ Bess Truman
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
~ William Wilberforce