Quotes About Obedience

God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.

The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.

What did I do? I read books and studied. I listened to my parents and did what they asked me to. Even though, in the end, I never made them happy. I didn't like myself, and something told me I'd end up alone.

It has been said by many that the risk, for the author who self-translates, is to rewrite more than translate, given that there are no rules to obey when the only authority is oneself. What is the meaning of obedience, of faithfulness, when the other does not exist. 57

he wanted to relive those confused days, that life of discovery, to be bound to those round tables and lectures and exams. There were things he had always meant to understand better [...] He wanted to read what he was told each evening, to do as he was told. There were great writers he had never read, would never read. His daughters would begin that journey soon enough, the world opening up for them in its entirety.

Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

I go to the gym every morning for a couple of hours, then I come to work, whatever is on the plate for the day, I do it. I don't ask many questions, I go where I am told to.

All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and insist on having their own way.

God owes me nothing. He doesn't have to work for anything good in my life. That is only for those who are called according to His purpose.

Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General.

Don't try moving mountains God ordained you to climb.

Life is given to bring the will of God on earth

The goal is not to be delivered of your problem only but to be an instrument of God

We shouldn't use God for our purpose alone but also be instruments of the extension of His Kingdom

Your complaint should be a pointer to what God wants you to do

We must always remember that the work entrusted to us by the Lord is a great work

It does not matter how old you are, whenever God calls you, you must begin to work toward fulfilling that calling

God can only work through those who have totally identified themselves with His will and purpose

Remember your created limits. So much of workaholism is a defiance of the physical limitations that God our creator has imposed upon us.