Obedience Quotes

True obedience is true freedom.

Henry Ward Beecher

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Christina Rossetti

To obey is better than sacrifice.

Obedience is the path to freedom.

James E Faust

Obedience is the road to freedom.

C S Lewis

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

Friedrich Schiller

Obedience is the key to every door.

George MacDonald

Obedience is less painful than regret.

Christine Caine

I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.

Shakespeare

I would rather obey than work miracles.

Martin Luther

Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.

Matthew Henry

Obedience is the highest form of worship.

Nothing tastes as good as obedience feels.

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

Charles Spurgeon

The way of obedience is the way of blessing.

T B Joshua

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

Randy Alcorn

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

Norman Vincent Peale

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

Martin Luther

Sanctification is the result of lifelong obedience.

Ellen G White

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

John Calvin

Health is the reward of obedience to the laws of God.

Ellen G White

Those who love Him will show their love by obedience.

Ellen G White

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Jerry B Jenkins

Obedience is your responsibility, the outcome is God's!

Steven Furtick

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.

Ellen G White

Our job is to obey, accept, and cooperate with God’s plan.

God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient.

Billy Graham

Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive.

L Tom Perry

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

Seneca the Younger

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge enters the mind.

Helen Keller

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God's will.

Elizabeth George

Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.

John Climacus

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

Karen Wheaton

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

Saint Augustine

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Teresa of Avila

The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him.

Dwight L Moody

Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

David Jeremiah

Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

Boyd K Packer

The beauty of obedience is that what God expects you to do, He also enables you to do.

Jim George

The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The essence of Christian obedience is not do's and don'ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

Timothy Keller

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

Jerry Bridges

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

Dorothy Day

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

Oswald Chambers

God will preserve all who walk in the path of obedience; but to depart from it is to venture on Satan’s ground.

Ellen G White

Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The key to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

A W Tozer

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, we are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience.

Charles Stanley

Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.

L Tom Perry

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

George Muller

Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures and translate what we find into obedience.

George Muller

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

Bill Johnson

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.

Saadi

When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.

Matthew Henry

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

People in obedience to the Lord do not worry, do not fret, do not need to know all of the outcomes before they are willing to commit themselves.

Reinhard Bonnke

Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people.

J C Ryle

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

George Eliot

Faith is the utter dependence upon the truth, the power, the justice, and the mercy of God; which dependence will certainly incline us to obey Him in all things.

Swift

By repentance and faith they might be freed from the condemnation of sin and through the grace of Christ be enabled henceforth to render obedience to the law of God.

Ellen G White

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:5

Faith requires obedience without full knowledge. I choose to trust God anyhow, humbly accepting my position as a creature whose very life and worth depend upon God’s mercy.

Philip Yancey

I participate in this work, this sanctification, through prayers, obedience, interaction with God’s Word and His saints. But ultimately the work is His and I can rest in that.

Kim Cummings

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination.

C S Lewis

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

By obedience a man is guarded against pride. Prayer is given for the sake of obedience. The grace of the Holy Spirit is also given for obedience. This is why obedience is higher than prayer and fasting.

Silouan the Athonite

Strength of my heart, I need not fail, Not mind to fear but to obey, With such a Leader, who could quail? Thou art as Thou wert yesterday. Strength of my heart, I rest in Thee, Fulfil Thy purposes through me.

Amy Carmichael

Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course of His life; thus He often says, He did not come to do His Own will, but that of His Heavenly Father.

Saint Francis de Sales

If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.

Martin Luther

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

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

Jesus was an earnest, constant worker. Never lived there among men another weighted with responsibilities…Yet his life was a life of health…In body as in soul He was an example of what God designed all humanity to be through obedience to His laws.

Ellen G White

Obedience is the medicine compounded of virtues, giving life to those who drink it, and the knife which, with one cut, cleans festering wounds. A man who, in faith and simplicity, has chosen to wield this knife, at once cuts off all passions, more completely than anyone.

Gregory of Sinai

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

Dostoevsky

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Charles Spurgeon

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

Let the children learn to see in nature an expression of the love and the wisdom of God; let the thought of Him be linked with bird and flower and tree; let all things seen become to them the interpreters of the unseen, and all the events of life be a means of divine teaching. As they learn thus to study the lessons in all created things and in all life's experiences, show that the same laws which govern the things of nature and the events of life are to control us, that they are given for our good, and that only in obedience to them can we find true happiness and success.

Ellen G White

We can not overestimate the value of simple faith and unquestioning obedience. It is by following the path of obedience in humble faith that the character attains perfection. Adam was required to render strict obedience to God's commandments, and no lower standard is presented to those who desire salvation today. Christ has promised us sufficient power to reach this high standard. He says: “Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it. If ye love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world can not receive.

Ellen G White