“They proved their love for God, not with words or with songs of worship, but with pure, undefiled obedience.” — Marian Jordan Ellis Copy Share Image
I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the… — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
“What people call preparation, God sees as the goal itself...if we realize that moment-by-moment obedience is the goal, then each moment as… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Saddest of all God’s creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has… — Walter Chantry Copy Share Image
Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
“they insist upon obedience to God’s commandments rather than submission to one’s feelings. Rather, they do so, first, because God requires this… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace and power of God to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Leadership and obedience are the two legs on which a warrior's life is balanced. Without both, victory cannot be achieved. Leadership depends… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
“The call of Jesus teaches us that our relation to the world has been built on an illusion. All the time we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Yes, brothers and sisters, the mission of the Church is glorious-to invite all of us to come unto Christ through proclaiming the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“What marvelous things happen when men and women walk with faith in obedience to that which is required of them! I recall… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“... primitive times had required primitive obedience, that later generations evolved to the point where parents offered themselves as sacrifice - as… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“our actions often belie our “emotions.” The true emotions of our hearts are the ones that inform lordship. We will obey the… — Zach Neese Copy Share Image
“As Ernest Becker observes in The Denial of Death, the very thought of disobeying authority appears to awaken the anxiety connected with… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin. — John Owen Copy Share Image
“There’s no substitute for daily fellowship with the Lord in his Word and in prayer, and then walking with him in obedience.” — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence stays in safe harbor. Obedience always leaves self behind and sails out in faith…Waves present opportunity! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“I started to get it. The Christian life wasn’t about running like a maniac; it was about walking with God. It wasn’t… — Phil Vischer Copy Share Image
... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The best way to positive change is reading the Bible, there is no other way to eternal bliss than concrete obedience to… — Osunsakin Adewale Copy Share Image
