Best 469 quotes in «obedience quotes» category

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience...whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed...It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.

God gives us resources according to our dreams and according to our obedience. And God doesn't give those resources until we've started walking in obedience.

God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.

God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient.

God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.

For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

God will always make a way where there is no way.

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience.

Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

Grace does not lead us to overlook obedience. Grace compels and empowers us for obedience.

Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

If ye love me keep my commandments

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

In short, Christians in general are everywhere denominated the servants and the children of God, and are required to serve him with that submissive obedience, and that affectionate promptitude of duty, which belong to those endearing relations.

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance

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

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.

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.

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

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

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

Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.