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Quotes About Obedience

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God
~ Kevin DeYoung
Duty is ours, results are God's.
~ John Quincy Adams
Living to glorify God means doing everything... for Him, His way, to point to His greatness and to reflect His goodness.
~ Joshua Harris
If you embrace all things in this life as coming from the hands of God, and even embrace death to fulfill His holy will, assuredly you will die a saint.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.
~ Coretta Scott King
When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.
~ Lewis Sperry Chafer
When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself.
~ John Bevere
If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?
~ Leonard Ravenhill
We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.
~ Martin Luther
No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.
~ Beth Moore
Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
~ John Calvin
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
~ John Stott
If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
~ D. A. Carson
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God's voice.
~ Bill Johnson
The best thing we can do is be a servant of God. It does good to stand up and serve others.
~ Fred Shuttlesworth
After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."
~ Bill Cosby
Deliverance is always found on 'the mount'; living faith must first prove to God that it has taken His word and promise for victory.
~ Rees Howells
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
~ Pope Paul VI
Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.
~ Martin Luther
Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
~ Oswald Chambers
No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
~ Oswald Chambers
Actually, as a Muslim, we believe sovereignty and supremacy belongs to God. And therefore, we believe in submitting to the commands of God.
~ Anjem Choudary