Quotes About Obedience

You don't have to be smart to get good grades, you just have to do what they tell you

Moses, without any mercy, breaks all bruised reeds, and quenches all smoking flax. For the law requires personal, perpetual and perfect obedience from the heart, and that under a most terrible curse, but gives no strength. It is a severe task master, like Pharaoh's, requiring the whole tale ofbricks and yet giving no straw. Christ comes with blessing after blessing, even upon those whom Moses had cursed, and with healing balm for those wounds which Moses had made.

Washing the men's clothes, caring for their rooms, serving them at table, listening to their orations, but themselves remaining respectfully silent in public assemblages, the Oberlin "coeds" were being prepared for intelligent motherhood and a properly subservient wifehood. (Flexner 1959:30)

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

But dear people, I tell you a truth.  No revival will come if we are not willing to be obedient to the Lord's call to go and make disciples and invest ourselves in the cause of Christ and make our living sacrifice to serve his will and not our own.

Matthew 7:21-23 – (21) Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.  (22) Many will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?' (23) Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work evil.

In his play Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot describes a martyr as one "who has become an instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it but found it, for he has found freedom in submission to God. The martyr no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of ­martyrdom.

I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would." "Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.

If you haven't been baptized as an expression of your faith in Christ, do so as soon as possible, as Jesus commanded.

God often calls surrendered people to do battle on his behalf.

God doesn't owe you an explanation or reason for everything he asks you to do. Understanding can wait, but obedience can't.

William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, said, "The greatness of a man's power is in the measure of his surrender.

Obedience unlocks understanding.

When you decide to live a totally surrendered life, that decision will be tested. Sometimes it will mean doing inconvenient, unpopular, costly, or seemingly impossible tasks. It will often mean doing the opposite of what you feel like doing.

James said, "Anyone who knows the right thing to do, but does not do it, is sinning.

Tú solo crees la parte de la Biblia que pones por obra.

Yet partial obedience is disobedience.

En realidad, nunca entenderás algunos mandamientos si no los obedeces primero. Obedecer abre la puerta al entendimiento.

Paul said, "You may brag about yourself, but the only approval that counts is the Lord's approval.

Debo obedecer a Dios en fe. Siempre que confiemos en la sabiduría divina y hagamos todo lo que nos manda, aunque no lo entendamos, estaremos afianzando la amistad con Dios.

C.S. Lewis dijo: «Hay dos tipos de personas: los que le dicen a Dios: "Sea hecha tu voluntad", y aquellos a quienes Dios les dice: "Muy bien, entonces, hágase tu voluntad"».

Father, I know you're going to do some incredible things in your world today. Please give me the privilege of getting in on some of what you're doing." In other words, church leaders should stop praying, "Lord, bless what I'm doing" and start praying, "Lord, help me to do what you are blessing.

Toda iglesia que no está obedeciendo a la Gran Comisión está fracasando en su propósito, sin importar qué otras cosas haga.

Obedience unlocks God's power.