Quotes About Obedience

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key,With bated breath, and whispering humbleness,Say this.

Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark youHis absolute "shall"?

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

I have not kept my square, but that to comeShall all be done by the rule.

To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures.

Had I but serv'd my God with half the zealI serv'd my king, he would not in mine ageHave left me naked to mine enemies.

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

You are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.

There is no room for pride before the Lord, however high and privileged our service of Him may be.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

You are the first one, so we are your servants," another replies. "That makes sense," agrees another clone.

As you open up your life to the Spirit's control, you do not get more of the Spirit, but He gets more of you.

nothing was more peculiar about the whites than the way they were always refusing responsibility by saying they were following orders.

God did not appear to Abraham without speaking to him. When He came to Abraham, He called him. God spoke to Abraham. Calling means speaking. It is not a small thing to hear God's speaking.

If God's people remain in the world, God cannot do anything. But if they are willing to be rescued from the world unto God, God can work out His purpose on the earth to have His dwelling place.

He had no sin or oldness, yet He was still baptized. His baptism was a testimony to the universe that He rejected Himself, that He put Himself aside in order to live by God.

Here, at Babel, rebellious man built a city with a tower for making a name for man, but Abraham, in the good land, erected a tent for his dwelling and built an altar for calling on the name of the Lord. That manmade tower at Babel was surely an offense to God. To set up a tower for making ourselves a name is equal to denying God's name. It is better that we conceal our name.

The children of Israel fought not only with God but also for God.

As long as he can keep us from God's way and frustrate us in fulfilling God's purpose, Satan will even motivate us to do things for God. This was how he worked in Cain.

To quote a dictum of Simon, what a horse does under compulsion he does blindly, and his performance is no more beautiful than would be that of a ballet-dancer taught by whip and goad.