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Quotes About Obedience

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.
~ Wilhelm Keitel
Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.
~ Millard Fuller
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands.
~ William Barclay
True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.
~ R. C. Sproul
Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
~ John of the Cross
We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.
~ Watchman Nee
Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.
~ William Arthur Ward
We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
~ J. C. Ryle
Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.
~ Jerry Bridges
Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!
~ Unknown
Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith.
~ Kevin W. Pearson
Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
~ A. Theodore Tuttle
If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.
~ Maynard James Keenan
The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.
~ J. C. Ryle
The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
~ Jean Racine
To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand or account for all its utterances.
~ Christina Rossetti
There is nothing the Lord has asked of us that in faith we cannot accomplish.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I feel very happy since the Lord called me to step out in faith, and I obeyed. The Lord is our inexhaustible treasure.
~ Arthur Wallis