Obedience Quotes - Page 9

• Cultivate prompt, exact, unquestioning, joyous obedience to every command that it is evident from its context applies to you. Be on the lookout for new orders from your King. Blessing lies in the direction of obedience to them. God's commands are but signboards that mark the road to present success and blessedness and to eternal glory.

  R. A. Torrey

  Kings, Lying, Blessing

  R. A. Torrey, Edward D. Andrews (2016). “CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]”, p.159, Christian Publishing House

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• Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

  Philip Neri

  Humble, Humility, Detachment

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.28, St Athanasius Press

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• A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Liberty, Great Work, Made

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

  Joyce Meyer

  Pathways, Want, Obedience To God

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• Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Prayer, Scripture, Testimony

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• Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

  Aeschylus

  Mother, Good Luck, Salvation

  Septem contra Thebas, l.224-5 (translated by C M Dawson).

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• Obedience is a hard profession.

  Pierre Corneille

  Profession, Hard

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• His kingdom come!" For this we pray in vain,
  Unless He does in our affections reign.
  How fond it were to wish for such a King,
  And no obedience to his sceptre bring,
  Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light;
  His service freedom, and His judgments right.

  Edmund Waller

  Kings, Light, Wish

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.252

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• Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

  Billy Graham

  Self, Four, Christ

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.136, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Levels, Determined

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness”, p.70, Tyndale House

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• Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

  Hosea Ballou

  Offering, Duty, Resignation

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• Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  People, Helping, Moral

  "More Than Human". Book by Theodore Sturgeon, Chapter 3, p. 181, 1953.

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• This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Father, Accountability, Heaven

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• Do you realize this? That if you were to somehow purpose to, from this day on, perfectly please God and succeed in doing it, that that perfect obedience, from this moment, would not acquire in the remainder of your life, enough merit to atone for one past sin, because God exacts and God demands perfect obedience and there's no merit for giving him the minimal requirement.

  Paris Reidhead

  Past, Giving, Perfect

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• I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

  Gerald Stern

  Kindness, Remember, Shyness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Religious, Religion, Left

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• He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

  Jim Elliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Christian

  "Blessed are the Persecuted". Sermon by Pastor Jason Lim, gospellight.sg. July 09, 2017.

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• All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

  John Stuart Mill

  Humanity, Capable

  John Stuart Mill (1875). “On Liberty”, p.36

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• Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Men, Perfect, Temptation

  Joseph Exell, Charles Spurgeon, John Calvin, Alexander Maclaren, D.L. Moody (2013). “The Biblical Illustrator - Vol. 45 - Pastoral Commentary on Romans”, p.1781, Primedia E-launch LLC

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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. If we knew why the Lord sent us this or that trial, it would thereby cease to be a trial either of faith or of patience.

  Alfred Edersheim

  Simple, Doe, Would Be

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• Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.

  Martyn

  Passion, Love Is, Term

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• All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.

  William Godwin

  Lying, Writing, Forever

  William Godwin (1823). “The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.53

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• Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!

  Brigham Young

  Sweet, Children, Teaching

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• Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.

  Bill Johnson

  Giving, Priorities, Said

  Bill Johnson (2015). “Face to Face with God”, p.50, Charisma Media

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• Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

  William P. Young

  Relationship, Love And Respect, Submission

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