Quotes About Obedience

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.

You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

I just execute the plays that they call.

The Law is the Law!

I am pathetically law-abiding.

I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do.

As a little kid, you go where your parents drag you. You have no agency, no dominion.

If my mama said not to do something, I didn't do it.

I want to play every game, as does every player. But sometimes, you just have to listen to the manager.

I didn't really have a position when I was younger; I just used to play where the manager told me to play.

I do whatever the manager tells us to do, really.

Devices make us pliant. We want to please them.

If you have laws that you don't enforce, then you don't have laws. This leads to lawlessness.

By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.

God has spoken, and when God speaks, the majority has spoken.

I kept asking Him to say it again, but He wouldn't. I guess it's because I heard Him the first time, you know.

Our 'behavior' will not be changed long with self-discipline, but fall in love and a human will accomplish what he never thought possible. The laziest of men will swim the English channel to win his woman. I think what Rick said is worth repeating that by accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

by accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.