Obedience Quotes

• The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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  One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Godly, Christian Inspirational, Christianity

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• Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.21, SCM Press

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• God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

  Charles Stanley

  Responsible, Disobedience, Consequence

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• Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Maturity, Years

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Bringing Sons Unto Glory: Studies in the Life of Our Lord”, p.18, Discovery House

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• God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient.

  Billy Graham

  Successful, Doe, Obedient

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• Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

  Bill Johnson

  Law, Voice, Principles

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• The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him.

  Dwight L. Moody

  People, Giving, Joy

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.74, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Obedience is the highest practical courage.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Practicals, Highest

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847”, p.131, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

  David Jeremiah

  Hands, Feet, Mind

  David Jeremiah (2013). “What Are You Afraid Of?: Facing Down Your Fears with Faith”, p.67, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Prayer, Way, Lacking

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• Obedience alone gives the right to command.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Military, Giving, Command

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.298, University of Georgia Press

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• Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

  John Nelson Darby

  Humility, Mind

  John Nelson Darby (2015). “Collected Writings by John Nelson Darby Volume One: Ecclesiastical”, p.111, Irving Risch

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• All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

  John Calvin

  Knowledge Of God, Born, True Knowledge

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• He who cannot obey cannot command.

  Jack Hyles

  Command

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• God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Eye, Two, May

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• Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Good Intentions, Intention, Substitutes

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• When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Responsibility, Relief

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.370, Transaction Publishers

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• Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

  Howard Zinn

  Inspirational, Death, Running

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• Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Acceptance, Roots, Divine

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• Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

  George Muller

  Motive, Instance, Disobedience

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• I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

  Teresa of Avila

  Power, Possible And Impossible, Catholic

  St. Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Interior Castle: or the Mansions”, p.29, TAN Books

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• A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Loyalty, Dog

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• I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Choices, Sensible, Retiring

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Design, Forgiving

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Zechariah And Malachi (Annotated Edition)”, p.194, Jazzybee Verlag

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