Inspirational Quotes on Obedience

“You express love by obedience.”

“Your faith level is determined by your obedience level.”

“God's corrections are our instructions; His lashes our lessons, and His scourges our schoolmasters.”

“Jesus organized the church, which is His vineyard. He commands all to go into the vineyard and work. All who are united to Christ by faith, and are thus members of His mystical body, should be members of His visible church.”

“Follow Him as well for the bitter cup of His passion as for the loaves.”

“The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.”

“Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you.”

“Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”

“Children, obey. Why does the apostle use the word obey instead of honor, which has a greater extent of meaning? It is because obedience is the evidence of that honor which children owe to their parents, and is therefore more earnestly enforced.”

“Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.”

“To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.”

“Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.”

“Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.”

“See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.”

“We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.”

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

“He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.”

“The words of St. Paul, 'No man can call Jesus Lord, but by the Holy Ghost,' show us the necessity of eyeing God in our good works, and even in our minutest thoughts; knowing that none are pleasing to him, but those which he forms in us and with us. From hence we learn that we cannot serve him, unless he use our tongue, hands, and heart, to do by himself and his Spirit whatever he would have us to do.”

“If we were not utterly impotent, our good works would be our own property; whereas now they belong wholly to God, because they proceed from him and his grace: While raising our works, and making them all divine, he honours himself in us through them.”

“Find preacher's of David Brainerd's spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.”