Quotes About Obedience

The commands of God are given, not to rob me of joy, but lead me into the fullness of joy.

We cannot break God's laws - but we can break ourselves against them.

Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.

Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.

Obedience allows God's blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.

We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.

Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

The one who obey's God's instruction for today will develop a keen awareness of His direction for tomorrow.

When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.

Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.

God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges

God gives us the grace to accomplish what He calls us to do. His commands are also His promise of victory.

Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.

There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow with a generous self-abandonment every thing which He requires.

It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God

God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.

When God puts something in your heart and deep down you know it's a destiny moment, don't wait for ten confirmations. Do what God is asking you to do now.