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Quotes About Obedience

Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before.
~ Erwin W. Lutzer
Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
~ Francis Chan
If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.
~ Francis Chan
How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.
~ Francois Fenelon
The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.
~ Franz Kafka
When we run ahead of God, we run into trouble.
~ Fraser Young
None of us are God - just His servants.
~ George Harrison
When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.
~ George Herbert
God was in control, and I was just pliable enough to say yes to wherever He would lead.
~ Gloria Gaynor
God will bless us if we walk in humility.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.
~ Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
~ Harold B. Lee
You can test what we have talked about today. Just try two things. Listen for the whisperings of the Spirit and then commit to obey. . . . God will take advantage of that if you let Him
~ Henry B. Eyring
Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
~ Herman Melville
God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.
~ Ian Bogost
Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.
~ Jack London
I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.
~ Joel Osteen
What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
~ Johannes Tauler
If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.
~ John Calvin
No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.
~ John Calvin
Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.
~ John Calvin
He that disobeys God, rejects his reign; and so God views it
~ John L. Dagg
Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.
~ John Milton