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Quotes About Obedience

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.
~ Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
~ Seneca the Younger
Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.
~ Adrian Rogers
There's a monumental difference in believing in God and believing God.
~ Andy Stanley
Holiness is not a series of do's and don'ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.
~ Jerry Bridges
We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.
~ Philip Yancey
The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
If we do not roll up our sleeves to the task of the Gospel in our days, then we will amount to virtually nothing for God.
~ Alistair Begg
Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of His servants.
~ Charles Colson
The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Through the lens of spirituality, we see all the commandments of God as invitations to blessings.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
There are many things God wants to do on earth and in people's lives, but if someone doesn't leap in and answer the call to pray, it won't happen.
~ Stormie Omartian
In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.
~ Therese of Lisieux
When God speaks and we obey, we will always be right.
~ Thomas S. Monson
God has seen fit that, since our services are useful to many persons, everyone approves them, but only when they are carried out in the spirit of Our Lord.
~ Vincent de Paul
When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.
~ William Gurnall
Many people know Christ as their Savior, but the woman who says yes to God longs to know Him as Lord.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
The key [to sharing the gospel] is that you be inspired of God, that you ask Him for direction and then go and do as the Spirit prompts you.
~ M. Russell Ballard
Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.
~ Max Anders
God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.
~ Max Anders
If you don't attempt things, you don't attract God.
~ Myles Munroe
When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.
~ Oswald Chambers
Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.
~ Oswald Chambers