Quotes About Obedience

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

You have that within you which is ever impelling you toward the upward and advancing way; and that impelling something is the divine Principle of Power; you must obey it without question.

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.

Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.

Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.

Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.

Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.

If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God.

Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us.