Obedience Quotes

I don’t want your apology. I want your obedience.

~ Tara Sue Me

Our central problem is not sin and guilt, as it is within the monarchical model. For the Spirit model, our central problem is “estrangement,” whose specific meaning of “separated from that to which one belongs” is most appropriate. ... For the monarchical model, sin is primarily disloyalty to the king, seen especially as disobedience to his laws. The metaphors used to express the Spirit model suggest something else. For the metaphor of God as lover, sin is unfaithfulness—that is, sin is going after other lovers.

~ Marcus J. Borg

I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one may compel obedience but never love.

~ Maria Mccann

Obedience, forgiveness, and devotion are in the blood of every victim.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Logan folded his arms. His voice was granite.My word stands.Can you love an idea more than you love a man and not become a monster? How many friends will you sacrifice on the altar of Justice, Logan?If you force my hand, at least one.They were standing on a precipice. Socially, Logan had always been Kylar's superior. Morally, Kylar had always felt inferior, too. But they'd never been placed in a direct hierarchical relation. Now Logan was giving an order. He would not be moved.Kylar could only accept his order and accept all his orders henceforth, or reject it and them forever. There was a part of him that yearned to obey. He was convinced that killing Terah was the right thing, but Logan's moral compass was a more accurate instrument than Kylar's. What was it about submission that was so hard? Kylar wasn't being asked for blind servility. He was being asked to obey a man he knew and loved and respected, who in turn respected him.'The wolfhound is pampered by the fire. The wolf is hunted in the cold.'Do you know how much I love you, Logan? Kylar asked. Logan opened his mouth, but before he could say a word, Kylar said, This much. And left.

~ Brent Weeks

Obedience leads to a powerful, confident life. When you are obedient, and when you allow yourself to be led by God through the unexpected, then you have a confidence based on the fact that you know exactly where God wants you to be.

~ Jim George

The beauty of obedience is that what God expects you to do, He also enables you to do.

~ Jim George

When you yield yourself in complete and whole-hearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you.

~ Jim George

Success becomes evident when the principles that bring about success are obeyed!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Honour comes and goes, influence comes and stays, but none of them safeguards us against danger than the mentor of true leadership; Jesus Christ!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can’t live outside the manual of your manufacturer and perform the function He created you for. God’s word is His manual, obey and take the lead!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you really want succeed in what you do, obey this rule;... Wake up very early, go to bed lately... Occupy your time usefully!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If I worship the fact that I don’t worship anything, amongst other things what I’m worshipping is denial.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Obedience moves the hand of the Lord.

~ Daryl Baugh

God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners.

~ Criss Jami

I would like to say that I had all kinds of great ideas about what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. I would like to say my ministry was born out of a carefully thought-out plan. These things simply aren't true, though. I was walking through life one moment at a time, blown away by what God could do through me if I simply said yes.

~ Katie J. Davis

What single-minded, purposeful, compassionate obedience did it take for Jesus to walk through this world completely unrecognized for who he truly was? Even those dearest and closest to him did not grasp it while he lived.

~ Marcia Lebhar

People love to quote that Jesus is love, yet they neglect to mention that He's also King. If you love the King, you will obey Him.

~ Alisa Hope Wagner

No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus’ sake unless he knows that the Holy Spirit has directly spoken to him; and until He comes, I shall not go.

~ Oswald Chambers

Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God's statutes and nothing else.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Greatness is obedience to what Jesus said, to the commission to go to the ends of the earth. It means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone, in the Name of Jesus Christ.

~ Ross Paterson

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life—if indeed we can conceive of it. Yet we have no indication that even Jesus was constantly awash with revelations as to what he should do. His union with the Father was so great that he was at all times obedient. This obedience was something that rested in his mature will and understanding of his life before God, not on always being told “Now do this” and “Now do that” with regard to every details of his life or work.

~ Dallas Willard

There is no excuse for anyone to misunderstand God's Word if he will, like a child, accept the Bible for what it says, and be honest enough to consecrate himself to obey it. He must accept the Bible as God's Word. He must believe that God could not be honest if He sought to hide from man the very things He will judge him by in the end. He must accept the Bible as the final Court of Appeal on its own subjects, and forget man's interpretations and distortion of the Word. He must believe that God knows what He is talking about; that He knows how to express Himself in human language; that He said what He meant, and meant what He said; and that what He says on a subject is more important than what any man may say about it.

~ Finis Jennings Dake

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?

~ Ronald J. Sider

Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its money.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sometimes while waiting for God's promises to come to pass, we messed up things and go into so many troubles, but God’s mercy has never failed in bringing us out of them all.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

True faith in God through Jesus Christ, must be manifested with fearless spirit and obedience to God's law. Joshua 1:1-11

~ Felix Wantang

it will make sense the moment you come Home. I could see it all so clearly. I could see what it is that we are waiting for. I knew in one solitary moment why I had learned obedience and why I valued nothing on the earth but love. It’s all that matters. It is all there is.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Never pupil was more humble, never pupil more obedient; thinking nothing of himself or of anything he had done or could do, his path was open to the swiftest and highest growth. It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing. The next point will be, whether he is growing at the ratio given him. The key to the whole thing is _obedience_, and nothing else.

~ George Macdonald

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

~ Emma Goldman

It is the duty of a child to obey his parent.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

~ Charles Bukowski

When you submit yourself to God and obey Him, you allow Him to do what He desires in your life. You make it possible for Him to lead you wherever He wants to use you.

~ Jim George

Once you make up your mind to be obedient to God, He will fight for you

~ Sunday Adelaja

Without self-esteem and respect for others, you cannot be true to your own values.

~ Auliq Ice

When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence.

~ George Macdonald

The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedience of the laws of God, the traps remain functionless.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.

~ Amit Kalantri