God doesn't want us to obey Him just because we're afraid of punishment.He longs for obedience that comes from our hearts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wanted only to try to live in obedience to the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Duty is an act of obedience stemming from respect, whilst willing desire is an act of freedom. To do something out of… — Jill Thrussell Copy Share Image
Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Faith in Christ makes one a regenerated believer; obedience to the Holy Spirit makes him a spiritual believer. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“if a strict obedience had been paid to the order, that every male, three times in the year, should present himself before… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love… — John Piper Copy Share Image
If you don't plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him,… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
If your men grow weary of the work or balk at obedience, you must bear with them. Get what you can gently… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given… — Hakeem Olajuwon Copy Share Image
“It is disobedience and not obedience that prompts us to select from the commands of Christ which ones we care to obey.”–1893,… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that… — Jack London Copy Share Image
It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“We have received grace … through Him to bring about the obedience of faith among all the nations, on behalf of His… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Jesus became a God and reached His great state of under-standing through consistent effort and continuous obedience to all the Gospel truths… — Milton R. Hunter Copy Share Image
Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism. — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“If you really want succeed in what you do, obey this rule;... Wake up very early, go to bed lately... Occupy your… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Even though God’s methods of speaking to them were different, Mary and Joseph’s response was the same. They both responded with obedience.” — Nick Chellsen Copy Share Image
To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I won't stick around to see how much temptation I can take. God is not impressed with my ability to stand up… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the… — Anne Sullivan Copy Share Image
With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain. — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
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… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“The Great Commission is about holiness. God wants the world to know Jesus, believe in Jesus, and obey Jesus. We don’t take… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
