Quotes About Obedience

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age - Have left me naked to mine enemies.

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.

To submit to anyone less than Christ is difficult in a marriage. Yet it is Christ who commands women to be submissive to their sinful, fallible husbands. In this sense Christ is the silent partner of the marriage. It is hard for a wife to submit when she disagrees with her husband. But when she knows her submission is an act of obedience to Christ and honors Christ, it is much less difficult.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

Trusting God is choosing to act in utter dependence on Him; trying harder is opting to retain control.

God's goal for you is total dependence on Him.

We are simply God's conduits.

When I give an order, Evangeline , I expect it to be obeyed. I don't expect it to be questioned. Or ignored. Or embellished with hare-brained notions. A ship runs on discipline. My discipline. As my father is fond of saying, on board this ship I am God, king, and all the saints combined and if you pray to anyone to keep you safe, you pray to me.

When in doubt, we can ask His assistance in knowing His will. We can also ask his help in performing those things which we know He requires of us. We should offer everything to Him before we do it and give Him thanks after we have finished.

Just because people understand what to do doesn't ensure that they will actually do it.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

You can tell your body to do whatever you want, Miss Idina," he'd told her, his eyes closed and his legs crossed beneath him while a young Idina fidgeted in her attempt at the same position. "When you tell your mind to do what you say, and it finally obeys, this is mastery. Over anything and everything you wish.

God does not always take us where we want to go, but He always leads us where we need to be.

Dear papa, I love you so much!' she replied, twining her arms around his neck. 'I love you all the better for never letting me have my own way, but always making me obey and keep to rules.

Verily I say unto you," Stuart said, looking Cyril straight in the eye and folding his arms, "that if you do not mind your sister Millie, you will be smitten both hip and thigh

To know about God is one thing but to be "known" by Him, ah, that is the bliss of Mary. "…but if one loves God truly (with affectionate reverence, prompt obedience, and grateful recognition of His blessing), he is known by God (recognized as worthy of His intimacy and love, and he is owned by Him)." 1 Cor. 8:3 Amplified, emphasis mine

Although we will not be perfect parents, we can, day-by-day, learn to live out God's instructions. Some day, we can hear the Lord say to us what the master told his slave, "Well done, good and faithful servant" (Matt. 25:21).

Certainly, we are to prayerfully strive to obey, but it is only by God's grace helping us that anything good and pleasing comes out of our lives.

children have two basic biblical responsibilities: (1) to obey their parents, and (2) to honor their parents.

Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise), "that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land." (Eph. 6:2-3)