Obedience Quotes

There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace and power of God to stand by us in the little things. The tiniest detail in which we obey has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. When we do our duty, not for duty’s sake, but because we believe that God is engineering our circumstances in that way, then at the very point of our obedience the whole superb grace of God is ours.

~ Oswald Chambers

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

~ Randy Alcorn

The main duty of ministers is to be obedient to God, following the Holy Spirit to obey everything that He instructs them to do.

~ Sunday Adelaja

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

~ Ignatius Of Loyola

In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-heeled homes up until at least the time of the First World War.

~ Bill Bryson

It's only when we understand [Jesus'] presence in the church as being the fulfillment of God's promise in Zephaniah 3:17 to quiet you with his love and rejoice over you with singing that a crucial aspect of our salvation comes into perspective. Jesus didn't coldly settle accounts for us. He doesn't bark us into improving ourselves. He united us to himself in the glorious communion he has enjoyed for eternity with his heavenly Father. He resides within us to heal the broken places and refresh cauterized hearts. He sings us into a new mode of existence.... When, as Paul does, we imagine Jesus singing nations into submission to his rule, our hearts come joyfully under the sway of a love that is infinite and powerful.

~ Reggie M. Kidd

Go, send, or disobey.

~ John Piper

There is nothing in the world or the Church — except the church's disobedience — to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.

~ Robert Speer

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

~ Ugo Betti

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

~ Banksy

If you follow the rules, it's your own fault.

~ Marty Rubin

Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could begin learning which could be broken and when.

~ Robert Jordan

Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controlling his behavior. That is why ideology, an attempt to interpret the condition of man, is always a prominent feature of revolutions, wars, and other circumstances in which individuals are called upon to perform extraordinary action.

~ Stanley Milgram

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

~ Stanley Milgram

Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.

~ Ashim Shanker

A model is an actor without a voice.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The Lord has called me to obedience, though not always to success.

~ Jonathan Mark Covey

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

~ John Gresham Machen

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

~ Nadia Boulanger

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

~ David A. Bednar

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

~ Austin Farrer

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

~ Christina Rossetti

The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.

~ Heinrich Böll

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

~ Aeschylus