Quotes About Obedience

We cannot establish direct contact outside ourselves except through him, through his word, and through our following of him. To think otherwise is to deceive ourselves.

To be silent does not mean to be inactive; rather it means to breathe in the will of God, to listen attentively and be ready to obey.4 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Meditating on the

All that the follower of Jesus has to do is to make sure that his obedience, following and love are entirely spontaneous and unpremeditated.

Discipleship is commitment to Christ. Because Christ exists, he must be followed.

Had Levi stayed at his post, Jesus might have been his present help in trouble, but not the Lord of his whole life. In other words Levi would never have learnt to believe.

It will always be true that the wisest course for the disciple is...to abide solely by the Word of God in all simplicity.

Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand—from the outset they must give up, as inappropriate to this topic, the very two questions that led them to deal with the ethical problem: "How can I be good?" and "How can I do something good?"[2] Instead they must ask the wholly other, completely different question: what is the will of God?

There is no fulfilment of the law apart from communion with God, and no communion with God apart from fulfilment of the law.

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying. It is no use asking questions, for it is only through obedience that you come to learn the truth.

g. What does it mean to love God?[444] Loving God means giving him everything that belongs to me; it means wishing nothing for myself; it means asking his will before everything you do;[445] it means gladly thinking about him, praying to him, gladly hearing and reading his word.

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God—the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God. Where are these responsible people?

Aus einem Brief an die Finkenwalder Brüder Groß-Schlönwitz, 20. Dezember 1937 Gott will nicht tote Christen, sondern Christen, die ihrem Herrn leben. Hören wir dieses Wort nicht, so ist Weihnachten an uns vorübergegangen.

The only way is by mortifying our own wills which are always obtruding themselves. And the only way to do this is by letting Christ alone reign in our hearts, by surrendering our wills completely to him, by living in fellowship with Jesus and by following him. Then we can pray that his will may be done

There is the question of resistance and of submission in the right place; that is, resistance to the devil is only possible in the fullest submission to the hand of God.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

Christ has not called us to be popular, but to be faithful. We are not saved to be relevant to the crowds; we are saved to reflect Christ.

To follow Christ requires a downward career track that does not depend on dollars or status. Instead, what matters is Christ.

Let us join Him in accomplishing His will today rather than our own.

We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.

God doesn't call us to fix every problem or to please every person; He calls us to do what we can.

A:I have no need to call it anything. I simply know that I am here; that all is good and well. I have what I need. I know what I know, and I will do what I am told. But you may call it any word which is good. That will be acceptable to me. J:Okay.

3 Y como viniese a faltar el vino, dijo a Jesús su madre: No tienen vino. 4 Le respondió Jesús: Mujer, ¿qué nos va a mí y a ti? Aún no es llegada mi hora. 5 Dijo entonces su madre a los sirvientes: Hagan lo que él les dirá.

12 El precepto mío es que se amen unos a otros, como yo los he amado a ustedes. 13 Que nadie tiene amor más grande, que el que da su vida por sus amigos. 14 Ustedes son mis amigos, si hacen lo que yo les mando. 15 Ya no los llamaré siervos: pues el siervo no es sabedor de lo que hace su amo. Mas a ustedes los he llamado amigos: porque les he hecho y haré saber cuantas cosas oí de mi Padre.

You had to deal with a situation you did not want. Once you are defeated, you have to do what you are told.