Obedience Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

  A. B. Simpson

  Children, Giving, Doe

  A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

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• Because Jesus Christ has prepared Himself from the foundations of the world we can trust Him as one uniquely qualified through the fullness of His love for His Father and us.  His love, meekness, condescension, knowledge, power, commitment to agency, and obedience combine to bring this elusive peace to all of God’s children.  Our peace was purchased by the shedding of the innocent blood of God’s purest Son.  Our trust in His capacity to bring us this peace can be complete because that has been part of His work and His glory from the beginning.

  David Wright

  Jesus, Children, Father

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• One of the greatest fruits of obedience is bold confidence in prayer.

  Karen Wheaton

  Prayer, Fruit

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• If you desire anything less for yourself than absolute obedience to God, a life of total devotion to the Lord, a life of absolute sin-less-ness - if you desire anything less, you are fighting against God's desire for you.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Fighting, Desire, Sin

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• We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.

  Alfred Edersheim

  Simple, Would Be, Purpose

  "Elisha the prophet: the lessons of his history and times".

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• ... the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these are ever the distinguishing characteristics of the soldier and sailor. Building character through intelligent training and education is always the first and greatest goal.

  Erich Raeder

  Loyalty, Military, Character

  Erich Raeder (1960). “My Life”

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• Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As for me, I declare that when I do good I obey no one, I fight no battle and win no victory. The cultivated person has only to follow the delicious incline of his or her inner impulses. Be beautiful and then do at each moment whatever your heart may inspire you to do. This is the whole of morality.

  Ernest Renan

  Beautiful, Struggle, Heart

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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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