Quotes About Obedience

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.

Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

Learn to obey before you command.

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

We learn about tithing by paying it.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.

Two words that will change your life.... Yes Lord!

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.