Inspirational Quotes on Obedience

“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”

“If you do not plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't begin, for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of citizenship, a change of governments, a change of allegiance. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; it is not for you.”

“The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, "Father, Your will for today is mine. Your pleasure for today is mine. Your work for today is mine. I trust You to be God. You lead me today and I will follow."”

“I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.”

“Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.”

“Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.”

“Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.”

“I am a spiritual being... After this body is dead, my spirit will soar. I refuse to let what will rot rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by my faith. I will be influenced only by God. I will be taught only by Christ.”

“Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.”

“Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.”

“Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people - the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.”

“The golden rule for understanding in spiritual matters is not intellect, but obedience.”

“I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.”

“Human nature, if it is healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.”

“The agony of man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says. Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I have kept Thy Word.”

“All of God's people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose he has given them.”

“One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.”

“He who always waits upon God, is ready whensoever he calls. He is a happy man who so lives that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.”

“Cultivate prompt, exact, unquestioning, joyous obedience to every command that it is evident from its context applies to you. Be on the lookout for new orders from your King. Blessing lies in the direction of obedience to them. God's commands are but signboards that mark the road to present success and blessedness and to eternal glory.”

“Obedience is not to be done slavishly, out of servile fear or out of some rigid, stoical desire for rule-keeping, but rather from a profound desire to express our love for the Father.|The Purpose of God, An Exposition of Ephesians, p. 123.”