Obedience Quotes - Page 34

• Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.

  Adrian Rogers

  Giving, Knowledge Of God, Mediation

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• Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Passion, Men, Order

  Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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• All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts and minds into conformity to His will, that when obeying Him we shall be but carrying out our own impulses. The will, refined and sanctified, will find its highest delight in doing His service. When we know God as it is our privilege to know Him, our life will be a life of continual obedience. Through an appreciation of the character of Christ, through communion with God, sin will become hateful to us.

  Ellen G. White

  Appreciation, Heart, Character

  Ellen G. White (2015). “The Complete Conflict of the Ages”, p.2240, Simon and Schuster

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• Worship is an act of obedience of the heart. It is a response that requires the very core of who you are, to love the Lord for who He is, not just for what He does.

  Darlene Zschech

  Heart, Doe, Worship

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• Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength, nights, days, youth, age, and spend them in Thy service, 0 my crucified Master, Redeemer, God. Oh, let not these be mere words! Whom have I in heaven but Thee and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of Thee. My heart is athirst for God.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Heart, Night, Giving

  "Stepping Heavenward".

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

  Jim George

  Yield, Great Things, Hearted

  Jim George (2015). “A Man After God's Own Heart--A Devotional”, p.139, Harvest House Publishers

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• Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

  John Bevere

  Spiritual, Children, Years

  John Bevere (2010). “The Bait Of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense”, p.59, Charisma Media

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• True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

  John Bevere

  Humility, Firsts, Thirds

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2014

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• It’s the quiet life of obedience that will earn a hearing

  Steve Farrar

  Hearing, Quiet, Quiet Life

  Steve Farrar (2006). “King Me: What Every Son Wants and Needs From His Father”, p.171, Moody Publishers

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• It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

  George Eliot

  Work, Blessing, Sake

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.405

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• The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission;he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Reality, Self, Iron

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• I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.

  Jon Foreman

  Decision, Debt, Lyrical

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• Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Discipline, Submission

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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• When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you
  to succeed, He’s calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him;the obedience is up to you.

  David Wilkerson

  God, Succeed, Higher Calling

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• For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Understanding, Matter

  "Studies in the Sermon on the Mount: God's Character and the Believer's Conduct".

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• A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Prayer, Produce

  Edwin Louis Cole (1982). “Maximized Manhood: A Guide to Family Survival”, Whitaker Distribution

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• The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Long, Heaven

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Age, Problem, Sin

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• Is not this steadfastness to mark, to make, the character of your lives? Is it not God's will that we should press steadily on to our goal in obedience to Him, in channels of His choosing, whether in sunshine or shadow, in the cheer of spring or in the chill of winter, neither detained by pleasure nor deterred by pain?

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Cheer, Pain, Spring

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

  Alex Steffen

  Thinking, Optimism, Political

  "The Bright Green City". Interview with Arnie Cooper, www.thesunmagazine.org. April 2010.

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• Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.

  Richard J. Foster

  Pride, Light, Self

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• The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the name of one book alone; hatred of sexuality, women,and pleasure; hatred of feminine; hatred of body, of desires, of drives. Instead Judaism, Christianity, and Islam extol faith and belief, obedience and submission, taste for death and longing for the beyond, the asexual angel and chastity, virginity and monogamous love, wife and mother, soul and spirit. In other words, life crucified and nothingness exalted.

  Michel Onfray

  Mother, Atheist, Book

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• There is only one way by which I can get right with God, and that is through the death of Jesus Christ. I must get rid of the underlying idea that I can ever be right with God because of my obedience. Who of us could ever obey God to absolute perfection!

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Ideas, Perfection

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, God, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life”, p.207, Discovery House

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• The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

  Howard Zinn

  World, Problem, This World

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