Quotes and Sayings About Obedience
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You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Love is the foundation of all obedience.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
-- Anatole Broyard -
...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.
-- Andy Stanley -
Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
-- Anthony de Mello -
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.
-- Anthony Eden -
Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
-- Austin Farrer -
Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.
-- Ayn Rand -
Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
-- Bai Ling -
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
-- Barbara Deming -
Those who walk in radical obedience have made themselves ready for the storm, and they will overcome.
-- Bob Sorge -
You’ll come with us,†she said. “Sure,†Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.†“Yes it was,†Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.
-- Brent Weeks -
God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience
-- Charles Stanley -
Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.
-- Christina Rossetti -
If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
-- D. A. Carson -
As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.
-- David Platt -
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.Â
-- David Platt -
When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you to succeed, He’s calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him;the obedience is up to you.
-- David Wilkerson -
You can only learn what obedience is by obeying
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
-- Ed Townsend -
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
Obedience sets a woman apart, fills her with life, permits her to be God-blessed.
-- Elaine A. Cannon -
Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
-- Elisabeth Elliot
