Quotes About Obedience

Sometimes you've got to do the natural before God will do the supernatural.

When I was in college, I wanted to be Joshua. Every time there was an altar call, I responded. Why? Because I didn't want to leave whatever gift God wanted to give me at the altar.

Humility honors God, and God honors humility.

Is God's voice the loudest voice in your life? That's the question. If the answer is no, that's the problem.

The beauty of obedience is this: it relieves us of responsibility.

Has God ever called you to throw something down? Something in which you find your security or put your identity? It's awfully hard to let go, isn't it? It feels like you are jeopardizing your future. And it feels like you could lose what is most important to you. But that is when you discover who you really are.

McNamara has broken the unofficial contract between civilian leaders and military officers that the military will obey the civilians without question in return for the civilian leadership not squandering military lives.

Many people assume that being a Christian means you follow all the rules and have your life together. They assume that "Christian" equals "good person"—when the opposite is true. The gospel is not about what we can do for God (good advice), but what God has done for us (good news). Jesus lived a perfect life precisely because we can't.

This book attempts to provide such careful instruction so that we might understand and recover faithfulness to God's Word on something that is not essential for salvation but that is both important and necessary for obedience—what the local church is to be and to do.

People can creatively devise how to approach a mute God, but they must listen to a speaking God.

We are humble because we know we are not the power in salvation. We are obedient because we know we possess the light.

Again, we are humble because we know we are not the power to change the heart. But we are obedient because we know we are the necessary means ordained by our sovereign God by which the light comes to those in darkness.

Too often Christians today have only two gears on their theological bike: essential and unimportant. If something is not essential for salvation, it is treated as unimportant and therefore dismissable. But the Bible presents us with a number of matters that are not essential for salvation but which nonetheless are important, even necessary, for obedience to God's Word.

God equates spiritual depth with obedience.

Understanding and truly accepting God's forgiveness is the incubator to a meaningful walk with Jesus. As we escape the dregs of compromise to walk in purity and obedience, we are free to grow on God's timetable if we ignore the lies of the unholy world. And only by avoiding faulty human logic can we give our lives over to the seeming risk of a God who is actually unable to be anything but faithful.

Christians have huge buts, where we believe everything but [insert excuse here].

but the one who does the will of God lives forever.

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S YES-MEN—AND THEIR MASCARA!)

State terror thereby creates obedience in the bodies of citizens and residents by enlisting the tense stomach and the threatened sphincter as visceral reminders of the external threats. There, terror often abides, in hidden but lethal ways.

We must abandon the goals of perfect obedience and untainted innocence and begin to equip our children to see their place in God's family, their need for his grace, and their opportunity to embrace his mission.

Gandhi saw that the power of any tyrant depends entirely on people being willing to obey. The tyrant may get people to obey by threatening to throw them in prison, or by holding guns to their heads. But the power still resides in the obedience, not in the prison or the guns.

Father Re put his hand on Pino's shoulder. "It sounds like too much to me, too, Pino, but I'm afraid it's not too much for God to ask of you.

God wants you to fight in a different way, and for a greater good, or he would not have put you where you are.

Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog.