Obedience Quotes - Page 13

• 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 path to freedom.

  James E. Faust

  Path

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• Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Happy, God, New Year

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• The really important thing in life is not the avoidance of mistakes, but the obedience of faith. By obedience, the man is led step by step to correct his errors, whereas nothing will ever happen to him if he doesn't get going.

  Paul Tournier

  Mistake, Men, Errors

  Paul Tournier (1976). “Reflections: On Life's Most Crucial Questions”

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• People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.

  D. A. Carson

  Prayer, Thinking, Self

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• Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Simple, Obedience To God

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• The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Fulfilled

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• In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fall, Reality, Errors

  Bertrand Russell (2007). “Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy”, p.170, Spokesman Books

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• Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new instant, (new eternity) / Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, / Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. / Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations / Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Spring, Shining, Grace

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• If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Change, God, Christian

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• It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Practice, Difficult

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• Obedience is the fruit of faith;
  patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

  Christina Rossetti

  Tree, Fruit

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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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• 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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• Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive.

  L. Tom Perry

  Strong, Proactive, Weak

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others. Every kind of character flaw comes from this natural impulse to be our own saviour through our own performance and achievement. On the one hand, proud and disdainful personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are succeeding. But on the other hand, discouraged and self loathing personalities also come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are failing.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Lying, Character

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• Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Law, Evil, Overcoming

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• Trusting God means transferring our confidence and hope from ourselves to him, acknowledging that we have no ability in ourselves to live in a way that pleases him. Only he can change us by the power of his Spirit in us. This trust is manifested in a context of obedience in our lives to the biblical mandates God calls us to pursue. Training means acting upon that trust by doing things that help us rely upon God more and live out his desire for us.

  Kenneth Boa

  Mean, Biblical, Training

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Army, Order, Law

  Daniel Berrigan (2009). “The Nightmare of God: The Book of Revelation”, p.22, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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