Quotes About Obedience

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

The army is under orders to defend every place.

I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.

I believe orders should be obeyed, but sometimes you have to think about the orders you get.

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

I'm the original take-orders girl.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.

And that we, far from being its authors, or its operators, or even its slaves (for slaves are agents who can harbour hopes, however faint, that one day a Moses or a Spartacus will set them free), were no more than actions and commands within its key-chains.

If obedience to fashion consists in imitation of an example, conscious neglect of fashion represents similar imitation, but under an inverse sign.

The question also had an ominous spiritual dimension. To which God would they submit? There was the one proclaimed by the Baptists who said they could no longer serve two masters, and that freedom was a birthright. And then there was the one of the Church of England who commanded them to obey their masters and serve in thankfulness and humility.

Become the person God commands you to be, and let Him handle the timing.

Remember, obedience to the rules and teachings of the Bible is just the minimum daily requirement. It is the starting point, the foundational

Eventually, as I studied grace more in-depth, I began to see the truth: After being saved it was still His grace that made me His, kept me His, and would enable me to live in a way that pleased Him.

It's true that we are not saved BY works, but it's also true that we are saved UNTO works (see Ephesians 2:8). In other words, works are not the CAUSE of our salvation, but they are to be a RESULT of our salvation. Works are not the ROOT of our salvation, but they are to be the FRUIT of our salvation.

It has nothing to do with whether you like God's rules. It's not your kingdom. If you want to operate by your own rules, then you need to go out and create your own world. But as long as you are in God's world, where God has set the rules, you must abide by His rules or you become a rebel against His kingdom government.

Obeying the will of God takes priority over satisfying cultural expectations.

Faith is acting as if God is telling the truth. It is acting as if something is true even when it doesn't appear to be true in order that it might be shown to be true simply because God said it's true.

The voice of God never contradicts Scripture. God never tells us to do something that is different from what he's already expressed through his Word. Though I know God uses prayer, promptings, circumstances, other people, etc., to get our attention and to point us in a new direction, he never tells us to move down a path that's contrary to his plan communicated through the Bible.

it's possible to do the work of God without doing the work God has called you to do.

And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws. -Exodus 20:6