Best 469 quotes in «obedience quotes» category

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

I too believe that God will always make a way where there is no way. I believe that if we will walk in obedience to the commandments of God, if we will follow the counsel of the priesthood, he will open a way even where there appears to be no way.

Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom

It’s the quiet life of obedience that will earn a hearing

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance

Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.

Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions.

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.

Never take biblical interpretation lightly. Never assume you've arrived or learned all that you can. Be a lifelong learner, but always apply what you're learning to yourself in real-life situations. Accurate interpretation is meant to lead to obedience.

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.

No master can make me swear blind obedience.

No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience.

Obedience is a hard profession.

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Obedience to the Lord is not only measured by how much we do for our Savior, but by how we obey Him when nobody is looking.

Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Obedience is your responsibility, the outcome is God's!

Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Our problem is civil obedience

once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.