Obedience Quotes - Page 35

• True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

  Dorothy Day

  Children, Matter, Force

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• The loving care of Mother Earth is in many quarters replacing the former sense of obedience to the Heavenly Father.

  Lloyd Geering

  Mother, Father, Earth

  Lloyd Geering (2015). “The World to Come: From Christian Past to Global Future”, p.130, Bridget Williams Books

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• The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

  A. B. Simpson

  Lying, Heart, Safe

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

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• Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

  John Tillotson

  Peace, Lying, Men

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• Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Law

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• A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh, loving us and dying for our redemption; and who is so affected by a sense of the love of this incarnate God as to be constrained to make the will of Christ the rule of his obedience, and the glory of Christ the great end for which He lives.

  Charles Hodge

  Christian, Jesus, Son

  Charles Hodge (1860). “An Exposition of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians”, p.133

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• I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must be a giant- must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause- if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No."

  David Platt

  Audacity, Looks, Faces

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• One mustn't allow acting to be like stoc kbroker - you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

  John Gielgud

  Jobs, Business, Mean

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• There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

  John Owen

  Peace, Perfect, States

  "The Works of John Owen".

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• Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.

  Richard J. Foster

  Doe, Worship, Holy

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.

  Stanley Milgram

  Views, Essence, Wish

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• People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of a supposed eternal reward, are victims of the greatest confidence trick of all time.

  Barbara Smoker

  Believe, People, Expectations

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  The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Mean, Responsibility

  "The Patriotism Smear" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. May 24, 2007.

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• Obedience is the pathway to blessing. It’s the means of protection. It’s the means of joy. It’s the means to finding God’s best in our lives.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Mean, Blessing, Joy

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• Every selfish, sinful, or indulgent choice I make today is sowing a seed that will reap a multiplied harvest. And every act of obedience is a seed that will produce a multiplied harvest of blessing in my life and in the lives of those I love.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Selfish, Blessing, Choices

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2007). “Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free”, p.260, Moody Publishers

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• Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance

  Dallas Willard

  Kingdoms, Abundance

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• If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Reality, Redemption

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.68, Discovery House

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• Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Maturity

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

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• If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.

  William Carey

  Prayer, Want, Kingdoms

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• 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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