Quotes About Obedience

The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.

Living God's way means putting away your self-centeredness and committing yourself to follow God's Word in spite of any feelings to the contrary.

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.

The callings of God never leave you where they find you.

In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

When the Spirit of God moves within us, we must move with Him or be miserable.

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.

Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!

We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.

God put me on this earth to be a tool.

Jonah saw God's will as punishment. Jesus saw God's will as nourishment.

What does God want me to do?", not "What will God do if I do so and so?

God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them; then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.

There is no dallying with God .

If we don't discipline ourselves, God will make certain we are disciplined by others.

We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

You ought to marry someone who's willing to go anywhere for God. If they're not, they're out.

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

It is important that we know and hear God's voice, for the words of God reveal the will of God.

God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I'm led to.

Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord.