Quotes About Obedience

We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.

Some believers are faithful in the way that they live, but at the end of the day, they will not share the gospel with as many people as someone else who has special gifts from God.

Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.

There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don't know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don't delay obedience.

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him.

Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference

Those who have been used of God had to pay a terrific price.

If you and I are to be used in our sphere as D.L. Moody was used in his, we must put all that we have and all that we are in the hands of God, for Him to use as He will.

A church that won't listen to the Word of God is a church already lost.

Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?

When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.

I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.

If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God.

Give God what's right, not what's left!

There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are a yielded and purified people.

God expects of us only what He Himself has supplied.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

As God's chosen, blessed sons and daughters, we are expected to attempt something large enough that failure is guaranteed…unless God steps in.

We must act on the direction we receive. We must look up and step up. And as we do, I know we will cheer up, for God wants us to be happy.