Quotes About Obedience

I don't care for moon to be on my side, I already have his Master.

God clearly communicates His will for us through His Word.

If you don't walk according to the Word of God, then you are on the way that leads to self-destruction

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.

There's a world of difference between a dog that is off the leash and a dog that is trained to be off the leash.

The loyal subject serves not two lords. The chase woman knows no second man.

Saddest of all God's creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward love to God.

True repentence is to depart from evil. A return to God, seeking his grace for power to obey him.

Lord, to the degree I don't want to do this, bless me.

When I listen to you, Godwhen I do what you ask me to, I am like a treeplanted by a river, a tree full of fruitwith leaves that are always green. Ps 1(paraphrased)

What is unrecognized about JFK's presidency, which then makes his assas­sination a false mystery, is that he was locked in a struggle with his national security state. That state had higher values than obedience to the orders of a president who wanted peace.

Do you realize the cost they paid when they surrendered to their new Lord? No money, no job, no understandable future. They had just hurt the one person they had been trained all their lives to honor and whom they never wanted to bruise—their father. They left him to finish the fishing. They left him with no inheritance. But something in their hearts said, "Go." So they left all they knew to become something that their minds could not comprehend.

Depersonalized Personalized Sin Breaking a rule Betraying a relationship Repentance Admitting guilt Sorrowing over personal betrayal Forgiveness Canceling a penalty Renewing fellowship Faith Believing a set of propositions Committing oneself to a person Christian life Obeying rules Pleasing the Lord

Listen!--- Listen! All you sons of Pharaoh. Who do you think can hold God's people when the Lord God himself has said, Let my people go?

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." —C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

Svarte shared this view, but he was obliged to obey.

if ever a pope should command me to play on the flute, build towers, to mend or weave garments, and to stuff sausages, ought not my reason to judge that the pope was foolish in so commanding?

Further, it is evident that if pope or other superior command the priest not to preach, who is disposed to do so (as has been said), or the rich not to give alms, the inferior ought not to obey. Wherefore, depending on this command of the Lord, I have not obeyed Pope Alexander's command in regard to not preaching and hence will humbly bear excommunication,1 confident that I will secure to myself the benediction of my God.

Therefore, blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has hidden the way of truth from the wise and prudent and revealed it unto simple laymen and little priests who choose rather to obey God than men, who in acts generically good and acts neutral have the life of Christ before their eyes and obey prelates so far as these acts, modified by circumstances, can be reasonably put into practice for edification through the imitation of Christ.

There'll be times when you wonder how you can possibly thank Him for something that turns your life upside down; certainly there will be such times for me. Let us, then, at times like these, give thanks on faith alone… obedient, trusting, hoping, believing.

I said, Thy will be done." "That's the prayer that never fails.

Maybe you done stepped aroun' th' Lord an' tryin' to lead th' way.

The sin life in us must be transformed into the spiritual life." "How?" "Through sacrifice and obedience.

I'm th' roughest ol' cob you ever seen when it comes t' mindin.' That's why I've fought th' Lord s' long, it meant mindin' 'im if I was t' foller 'im. It's about wore me out, fightin' 'im. Not t' say I don't respect 'im, I do. But I don't want t' mind 'im.