Inspirational Quotes on Obedience

“The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.”

“He that seeketh anything else but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.”

“No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.”

“True obedience hath no lead at its heels.”

“It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His purposes. The decrees of God are a vast ocean, into which many possibly have curiously pried to their own horror and despair; but few or none have ever pried into them to their own profit and satisfaction.”

“Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.”

“To obey God in some things, and not in others, shows an unsound heart. Childlike obedience moves toward even command of God, as the needle points where the loadstone draws.”

“A child of God, though he cannot serve the Lord perfectly, yet he serves him willingly; his will is in the law of the Lord; he is not a pressed soldier, but a volunteer. By the beating of this pulse we may judge whether there be spiritual life in us or no.”

“Be not only attentive in hearing, but retentive after hearing.”

“You must not think that the Lord must work harder to use people in little known places. You must not say, "Well, yes, I guess God could figure out a way to use even me where I am." "Aim at My glory," the Lord says, "and I am using you. Aim to please Me, and you are My minister, right where you are, in whatever you are doing!"”

“He has told us to pray, 'Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven' (Matthew 6:10). And if we have ever prayed that prayer and meant it--even once--we have ourselves shut the door on thousands of things for which we might foolishly ask.”

“A wife who is 85% faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.”

“Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.”

“What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.”

“We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination.”

“What he needs is not increased spiritual teaching but an obedient heart which is willing to yield his life to the Holy Spirit and go the way of the cross according to the Spirit's command. Increased spiritual teaching will only strengthen his carnality and serve to deceive him into conceiving himself as spiritual.”

“He can only keep those who have handed themselves over to Him.”

“God's means of delivering us from sin is not by making us stronger and stronger, but by making us weaker and weaker.”

“If we wish to live out the life of the body of Christ we must cover our own head; that is to say, we must not have our personal opinion, egoistic will or selfish thought. We can only obey the Lord and let Him be the Head.”

“The obedience of the Christian to God ought to be unconditional.”