Best 469 quotes in «obedience quotes» category

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

Our problem is civil obedience

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.

Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?

Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Sincere love is not as a result of emotional surges - it’s a result of obedience to the Truth.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

Since the success of believers is tied to our knowledge of and obedience to God's Word, the memorizing of portions of the Bible is advisable.

Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.

Success is not a pursuit...but the result of obedience to the Divien and Natural laws of Life established by the Creator

Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive.

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

Surely the Lord loves, more than anything else, an unwavering determination to obey his counsel.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity.

Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.

The possession of a true testimony is the most valuable possession that one could have. It gives one knowledge, the hope and assurance that one, through obedience, can be a partaker of all the promised blessings.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.

The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.

There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental.

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

True obedience is true freedom.

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.

True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.