Quotes About Obedience

God warned me. He told me to build a boat.

Never place a comma where God has placed a period. God has spoken!

God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.

...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

Never try to help God fulfill His word.

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.

God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.

All service is the same with God.

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.

We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.

In the measure that we pay attention and take care to carry out what we hear, God will always enlighten us and make us understand His will.

If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18).

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice.

What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, "let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?