Quotes About Obedience

Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.

In all things seek to know God's Will and when known obey at any cost.

Grace does not cancel out our responsibility or accountability for the things God has given us to do.

The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for.

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

God is looking for willing hearts... God has no favorites. You do not have to be special, but you have to be available.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.

Go for the purposes of God, and the means to fulfill them will follow.

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.

God is seeking those who hear His call to a life of worship. Those who heed are those who will walk in His presence. They will know Him intimately as He will manifest Himself to them.

Wise people listen to wise instruction, especially instruction from the Word of God.

Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.

God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

The Spirit of God leads the people of God to submit to the Word of God.

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.