Quotes About Obedience

Those who are very active in doing good works might think that they are superior to those who choose to place hearing God's word first place.

Christians should not let the world convince them that it is foolish to believe in God or to obey his commands.

God has spoken, and I dare not pretend that nothing happened.

Love for God is not defined by fondness or admiration, but obedience. And only a true Christian can love God as defined by these verses – he obeys the commands of God, and submits to him in thought and action. Of course a Christian is also fond of God, but it is a feigned fondness if he does not also obey the divine commands in the Bible.

We preach the gospel so that, in obedience to God's command and foreordination, those who are "appointed for eternal life" (Acts 13:48) will come to Christ, and not because they will be damned without us.

Some Christians find it difficult to accept that our relationship with God is partly characterized as a master and slave relationship.

God demands his people to imitate his holiness under both the Old and New Testaments:

the very ideas of right and wrong remain undefined without his verbal revelation – he must define these concepts for us, and only his definitions are authoritative, relevant, and binding on all people.

It does not pretend to grant you the right to oppose or debate it. You must agree with it, believe it, and obey it. It does not respect private values and private opinions, as if we are each our own god. It ignores those things that we would consider our rights when we are dealing with our fellow human beings. This is because when we are dealing with the Bible, we are not dealing with other human beings, but with God himself.

God is the only standard of justice, and we must submit to his standard instead of imposing our own standard on him.

The Bible leaves no room for anti-intellectualism, and offers no excuse for withholding agreement or obedience.

It is right for man to submit to God and obey his commands (Ecclesiastes 12:13).

God is the ruler over every person and every institution, not just the believer and the church. And since the Bible is his revelation, it carries the same authority over every person and every institution. Therefore, every human government must submit and operate under the Bible, and any deviation from it constitutes sinful rebellion against divine authority.

this universe is not a democracy, and you cannot democratize or Americanize the kingdom of heaven. You have no rights that would require God to treat you a certain way.

If it refuses to honor biblical revelation, we shall whip it into submission with the hard chain of logic.

The standard of right and wrong rested solely on God's authority, not as something outside of him, but as identical to his will, and expressed in his instructions and commands.

nothing to do with birth, with choice, or with freedom. The Christian's definition of sin has to do with God's command. If God says something is wrong, then it is wrong to do it, regardless of the context or choice, and regardless of freedom.

a person who hears the word of God but does not understand what he hears will fail to retain or apply it.

Make no mistake about it: We are indeed out to advance our faith and destroy all others. Christ commands us to do this, so that we must call into question the Christian commitment of anyone who denies or disobeys such a formulation of our mission.

David was not obeying God, but it still wasn't Uzzah's place to touch the ark.

Women are not supposed to take up much room, or to go very far from home, or to stay away for long. They are not supposed to be by themselves. They are supposed to hear and obey, to come back when they are called.

As is invariably noted at the beginning of positively all literary biographies, the little boy was a glutton for books.... For his first writing exercise he painstakingly reproduced: "Obey your sovereign, honor him and submit to his laws," and the compressed ball of his index finger thus remained ink-stained forever. Now the thirties are over and the forties have begun.

Whoever you are, behold your master,He is, or was, or has to be.

a dog's job was to do what people wanted.