Quotes About Obedience

As you commit your life to follow the Lord, He begins to plant His desires in your heart, then guides you according to His plan

Nosotros no tenemos la libertad para inventar nuevos métodos de adoración a Dios, solo porque ayudan a facilitar una experiencia emocional. No podemos realmente experimentar lo que no sabemos y no podemos conocer a Dios a menos que Él mismo se nos revele en su Palabra.

Los pastores deben sacrificar sus aspiraciones personales de grandeza y deshacerse de todo deseo de convertirse en una celebridad cristiana y estar dispuesto (si es necesario) a ministrar en la oscuridad.

En lugar de tratar de añadir al culto nuevas formas de adoración, es necesario dejar que la iglesia busque hacer aquello que ha sido prescrito y hacerlo bien.

Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to "great tribulation" when we look around and see others seemingly much less obedient who triumph even as we weep. But time is measured only unto man, says Alma (see Alma 40:8), and God has a very good memory.

We must be willing to place all that we have--not just our possessions (they may be the easiest things of all to give up), but also our ambition and pride and stubbornness and vanity--we must place it all on the altar of God, kneel there in silent submission, and willingly walk away.

George Washington's troops scraped off the scabs of the smallpox dead to inoculate themselves, but we cower in our homes in fear and obedience for a virus that is 99.6% non-fatal and is fatal mostly for people who lived four years longer than the average life span.27 Friends of mine who caught the virus and developed immunities are still treated like lepers even though there is not one single verified case of reinfection from Covid-19 in the world.

The purpose of schools in America is not for people to learn anything, it's to make them obedient, trained animals for a more efficient work force.

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.

Teaching by example, radical obedience, justice, mercy, activism, and sacrifice wholly inspires me. I'm at that place where "well done" trumps "well said." When I see kingdom work in the middle of brokenness, when mission transitions from the academic soil of the mind into the sacrificial work of someone's hands, I am utterly affected. Obedience inspires me. Servant leaders inspire me. Humility inspires me. Talking heads dissecting apologetics stopped inspiring me a few years ago.

Obedience isn't a lack of fear. It's just doing it scared.

Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how God holds the kingdom in balance or why he moves a chess piece at a crucial time; we might never see the results of his sovereignty [...] I might just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm a part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.

People crave what they have always craved: to be known and loved, to belong somewhere. Community is such a basic human need. It helps us weather virtually every storm. If Jesus' basic marching orders were 1.) to love God and 2.) to love people, then the fruit of that obedience includes being loved by God and loved by people. We give and get here. According to Jesus, the love of God and people is the substance of life.

We've invented a thousand shades of gray, devising a comfortable Christian existence we can all live with—super awesome, except the Bible doesn't support it. According to Scripture, no real disciple serves God while addicted to the dollar. There

There is a biblical benchmark I now use. We will refer to this criterion for every hard question, big idea, topic, assessment of our own obedience, every "should" or "should not" and "will" or "will not" we ascribe to God, every theological sound bite. Here it is: If it isn't also true for a poor single Christian mom in Haiti, it isn't true.

I'm not a bloodhound, your lordships." "Woof, woof." Cameron said, giving Fellows an evil grin. "Good dog.

He briefly wondered why the marriage ceremony bothered to contain the wife's promise to obey her husband—he hadn't met a woman yet who followed it.

I'm not a bloodhound, your lordships." "Woof, woof," Cameron said, giving Fellows an evil grin. "Good dog.

She questioned everything and was obedient to only one thing—her heart.

Asking questions, demanding explanations—these things always led to trouble. The moment a girl learned how to talk, she was told not to.

Her dad turned to me. "You. Follow Me." "Woof," I said.

For the first time in our lives, we weren't trying to create our own opportunities; we were simply trying to respond to the Spirit's leading.

living on mission where you've been sent will transform your faith journey.

You're my escort?" Devon shrugged. "The Big Guy tells you to do something, you do it, even if it means babysitting a bratty little human girl who calls playing with glue an art." I reached over and smacked him.