Quotes About Obedience

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it."

It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.

All social controls, for instance, are ultimately based on a threat to the survival instinct. The people of an oppressed country obey their conquerors because they want to go on living.

God's grace is sufficient when we come up short in our obedience, but it is important to call sin "sin" and declare war on it. Those who love God in truth will set their hearts to live in a spirit of obedience in every area of their lives—including their use of time, money, and words, and in what their eyes look at.

He also sees the good qualities in your life and the willingness in your spirit—even more than you can see them yourself. We try to obey God but stumble outwardly. By doing this, we mirror what Samuel did when he was anointing David; we look at the outward appearance. When we stumble, we feel as if we are total hypocrites, and then we want to quit. God sees us fall, but He also sees the cry in our hearts to obey Him and succeed. Many times this truth has given me the courage to go on.

Most of us have become quite good at the church thing. And yet, disciples are the only thing that Jesus cares about, and it's the only number that Jesus is counting.

What we see from Jesus is that success isn't thousands of people and an ever-expanding church. Success is obedience to what the Father asks.

The main issue with the traditional understanding of evangelism and apologetics is that they are too narrowly construed. The Bible teaches that evangelism is life (we are salt and light) and that the greatest apologetic is a life lived in obedience to God.

We say to God, 'Show me and I'll believe.' Instead, God says to us, 'Believe, and I'll show you.' This is the life of following Jesus Christ. We say, 'God, show me your will and I'll obey you.' God says, 'Obey me, and I'll show you my will.

God is not looking for 'more and more' obedience but 'deeper and deeper' obedience. True obedience is of the heart. Externals matter only to the degree that they reflect (and affect) the heart.

Jesus never called us to be believers--he calls us to be followers who believe. It was so easy for me to be a Christian early on because I thought the whole thing was an exercise in believing. But following Jesus is an exercise in living--because we believe.

Every time you are obedient to Jesus in faith, you war against the dragon and demonstrate the power and love of God. Loving your enemies, blessing people who insult you--this is not a passive, wishy-washy kind of love; it is violent resistance to the powers that govern this world.

Jonah 3:1: "The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time

God's call will never involve temptation or evil or selfishness.

Do Not Attempt To Alter Your Assignment. Just do it.

As Jesus's disciples we are to follow him—doing the things he did.

Obedience is the ultimate act of worship. It is also an act of faith because it's an act of trusting love.

It's not that we are getting more of the Spirit so that we can use him for our will; he is getting more of us so he can use us for his will.

We agreed that our own ideas and expectations tended to make us deaf to hearing God's will. We needed, at least at times, to just lay them down and listen. Leave the next move entirely up to God.

Such is the psychology of crowds that the majority will follow whoever appeared to be in power...

How do you prove that you love God?

Noa – because he obeyed and did what the Lord asked. Noa – because he believed when it was impossible to do so.

When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.

La nonna gli diede uno strattone e gli fece segno di inginocchiarsi. Obbedì, ma nel toccare l'erba che cresceva rigogliosa nella fossa sentì che i fili appuntiti gli pungevano il mento, turbando la serenità del suo animo. Provò freddo alle spalle, come se innumerevoli occhi di bambini morti gli stessero fissando la schiena. Udì innumerevoli bambini correre, scalciare e ridere.