Best 469 quotes in «obedience quotes» category

When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.

When we violate our conscience by compromising our integrity, we put our reputation at risk. We also become our own advocate because we step outside the boundaries of God's good, pleasing, and perfect will. But when we obey God, we come under the umbrella of His protective authority. He is our Advocate. And it's His reputation that is at stake. If we don't give the Enemy a foothold, God won't let him touch a hair on our head.

When we think seriously about what it will cost others if we obey the call of Jesus, we tell God He doesn't know what our obedience will cost.

When we submit to God, when we call upon His Name and give Him the glory as we trust Him, we can rest assured that God will give us the victory. When we obey God’s instructions, we will succeed. Obedience is key to success.

when you obey the rules, the rules obey you

When your heart is broken, it’s easier to follow rules

When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward a simple, bold obedience.

When you submit yourself to God and obey Him, you allow Him to do what He desires in your life. You make it possible for Him to lead you wherever He wants to use you.

Whoever is wise will heed to the word of God.

Will we remain faithful in our obedience to God and be willing to suffer the humiliation of refusing to be independent?

Yes, brothers and sisters, the mission of the Church is glorious-to invite all of us to come unto Christ through proclaiming the gospel, perfecting our lives, and redeeming our dead. As we come unto Christ, we bless our own lives, those of our families, and our Father in Heaven's children, both living and dead. . . . "I pray that we will be obedient to God, learn His will and do it, and, above all, that we will keep the first and great commandment-to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength" ("Come Unto Christ," April 1988 General Conference).

Yes, you can make a difference! You can speak on behalf of those who are voiceless.

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone.

Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.

You can’t live outside the manual of your manufacturer and perform the function He created you for. God’s word is His manual; obey and take the lead!

You don't need anybody's permission to prove yourself, just prove yourself.

You don’t need to understand. You need only to obey and then reap the blessings of that obedience.

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

You're wrong Heinrich. While it might seem easy to believe, you and I aren't actually the same. You've been fighting someone else's war, you've been obeying orders, you've been carrying out a part in his plan. You've served other people all your life, for a goal that you won't even see accomplished: that's your defeat.

You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but it's still there, like dry tinder waiting for a spark.

Your lifestyle should contrast your obedience

You tend to fault the trainer when things don't go right." "Is someone else teaching the dog?

Your directions, your judgment, your disposition to rebel must be subjected and reduced to ashes. How? In the fire of obedience, for it is there that you will find out if you are truly a follower of Divine love or self love.

A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.

Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.

A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.

Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Caring for God's endowment in a thrifty fashion is a form of biblical obedience.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

Every good servant does not all commands.

Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good.

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

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

Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.

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

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

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

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

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

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

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

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