Faith And Obedience Quotes

#1. Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order to experience life in Christ; it is what comes to us when we are walking in the way of faith and obedience.

Eugene H. Peterson

#2. If you're anxious about the state of the world, that's understandable. But trade your anxiety for the blessing of hearing the words of Scripture, keeping them in faith and obedience, and remembering the time is near.

David Jeremiah

#3. There is perhaps nothing so remarkable about Jesus than the fact that he advanced himself as the object of faith, love, and obedience, and yet he comes across as the most humble man to walk the face of the earth.

Douglas Sean O'Donnell

#4. For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.

Alfred Edersheim

#5. The Devils also believe and know abundance: But in this is the Difference, their Faith works not by Love, nor their Knowledge by Obedience; and therefore they are never the better for them. And if ours be such, we shall be of their Church, not of Christ's: For as the Head is, so must the Body be.

Various

#6. O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.

Eugene H. Peterson

#7. Jesus' blood was shed for us all; what remains is for us to accept His sacrifice in faith and obedience.

Kenneth Boa

#8. As prayer without faith is but a beating of the air, so trust without prayer [is] but a presumptuous bravado. He that promises to give, and bids us trust His promises, commands us to pray, and expects obedience to his commands. He will give, but not without our asking.

Thomas Lye

#9. We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not our believing it, is the matter of our justification before God.

John Flavel

#10. Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.

Ellen G. White

#11. Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God's unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.

L. Tom Perry

#12. The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

Phillips Brooks

#13. Thought
Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness;
As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly
affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who
do not believe in men.

Walt Whitman

#14. It is when we are at our darkest hour, when we can see no evidence that God loves us or that he is even there to listen to our prayers, much less answer them ... and yet, we still obey.
It is then that the devil is reminded that his cause is lost.

Tom King

#15. Faith that trusts on Jesus alone for salvation, and not on your respectable life, and the obedience that follows Him, are the indispensable steps to salvation. You admit that you have not taken these decisive steps. Then, however near you are, you are not in Christ.

Theodore L. Cuyler

#16. Do the time, energy, and passion with which I pursue my own interests match the intensity of my faith, obedience, and love for God and others? Is my life mysterious? Or do I live, love, and lust like the rest of the world?

Anonymous

#17. She was so pure and so brave and so singular in her faith and obedience to God that, perhaps like Francis of Assisi or even like Jesus himself, she challenges many of our deepest assumptions about what a life can be.

Eric Metaxas

#18. If, in the quiet of your heart, you feel something should be done, stop and consider whether it is in line with the character and teaching of Jesus. If so, obey that impulse to do it, and in doing so you will find it was God guiding you.

Eric Liddell

#19. With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain.

Henry B. Eyring

#20. What is courage? It is the ability to be strong in trust, in conviction, in obedience. To be courageous is to step out in faith - to trust and obey, no matter what.

Kay Arthur

#21. Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

Oswald Chambers

#22. Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.

Jonathan Edwards

#23. God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.

John Piper

#24. 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

#25. Obedience to God will bring blessings to you and others.

Jim George

#26. Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Baruch Spinoza

#27. How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.

Bill Hybels

#28. There is salvation for lost and ruined men by faith in the blood and in the obedience of him who died upon the tree, and is now enthroned in the highest place in heaven. - James

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#29. What does it mean to fear the Lord? It means to have awe and reverence for him. The woman who fears the Lord obeys from a heart of love for the God of the universe, who is also her heavenly Father! Her childlike fear of her heavenly Father leads her to faithful and faith-filled obedience.

Kimberly Hahn

#30. Ultimately we have nothing to fear. Jesus loves us, and he invites us to be confident in that love. As we seek to obey Him, we are not called to assess the risk involved and determine whether or not obedience will be beneficial or safe for us. We are simply called to trust and obey.

Dan Baumann

#31. See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.

John Owen

#32. Making disciples requires not only "sharing our faith," but also sharing our lives - failures and successes, disobedience and obedience.

Anonymous

#33. Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people.

Keith B. McMullin

#34. You don't need to understand. You need only to obey and then reap the blessings of that obedience.

Jim George

#35. Culture, social order, and external ceremony have no bearing on spiritual life. What matters is faith and obedience.

Anonymous

#36. True faith in God through Jesus Christ, must be manifested with fearless spirit and obedience to God's law. Joshua 1:1-11

Felix Wantang

#37. It takes faith, too, and obedience, to conquer selfishness, that unsubmissive characteristic which, if unchecked, produces profound personal melancholy and solitariness. Selfishness is a form of self-worship, and we have been told, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me" (Exodus 20:3).

Neal A. Maxwell

#38. The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.

John Stott

#39. All scripture points to one thing: life is about God. The process of moving from confused wandering to purpose and joy is marked by faith, by waiting on the Lord in ready obedience.

Ken Wytsma

#40. Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#41. Radical obedience to Christ is not easy ... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.

David Platt

#42. Obedience and submission requires faith

Sunday Adelaja

#43. Our willingness and desire to be obedient to the teachings of Jesus is at the heart of our entire faith walk.

Sara Dormon

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

Billy Graham

#45. There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which will remain undone and incomplete until by faith and obedience you step into the will of God.

Alan Redpath

#46. Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.

J.I. Packer

#47. Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

Baruch Spinoza

#48. To do well does not mean everything will always turn out well. The key is to remember that faith and obedience are still the answers, even when things go wrong, perhaps especially when things go wrong.

David E. Sorensen

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

Rousas John Rushdoony

#50. Obedience requires knowing God's word, His expectations and then actually living them out.

Sara Dormon

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#52. One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.

Anne Graham Lotz

#53. All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.

John Owen

#54. Every day we must turn again to God's acts of salvation, so that we can again move forward ... . Faith and obedience live on remembrance and repetition. Remembrance becomes the power of the present because of the living God who once acted for me and who reminds me of that today.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#55. Whenever, wherever, however You want me, I'll go. And I'll begin this very minute. Lord, as I stand up from this place, and as I take my first step forward, will You consider this is a step toward complete obedience to You? I'll call it the step of yes.

Brother Andrew

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#57. 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

#58. True knowledge of God and of the secret of his wisdom comes from faith, because the obedience of faith opens to us the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven.

John Calvin

#59. God is looking for fearless and courageous faith rooted in obedience of His law. This is what it takes to work for God. Joshua 1:1-9

Felix Wantang

#60. Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith.

Kevin W. Pearson

#61. The one thing He commands us as His branches is to bear fruit. Let us live to bless others, to testify of the life and the love there is in Jesus. Let us in faith and obedience give our whole life to that which Jesus chose us for and appointed us to-fruit-bearing.

Andy Murray

#62. It is only through faith that you will receive the patience, obedience, and humility to be submissive

Sunday Adelaja

#63. The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#64. In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General.

Vincent De Paul

#65. But the supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of minds, therefore, requires, together with a perfect accord in the one faith, complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself.

Pope Leo XIII

#66. ROM1.5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

Anonymous

#67. When you submit yourself to God and obey Him, you allow Him to do what He desires in your life. You make it possible for Him to lead you wherever He wants to use you.

Jim George

#68. I learned to accept that everything happened in her time. When you live in the moment, it's easier to wait. When you trust and have faith, you just know that whatever it is will come when it will come. Your master will always bring everything to you at the perfect time.

Kate McGahan

#69. To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are spiritually regenerate is to overthrow the gospel and the faith of the universal church in all ages.

John Owen

#70. The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

Mark Galli

#71. But in life we are motivated to step from a place of hope and into a place of faith and from there move into obedience. Obedience is a sign that we really believe His covenant is true. For instance, do you know that tithing is a test to see how closely we believe God.

Kerry Kirkwood

#72. When He withholds an answer, it is to have us grow through faith in Him, obedience to His commandments, and a willingness to act on truth.

Richard G. Scott

#73. If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

Charles Hodge

#74. Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

James E. Faust

#75. When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

Brennan Manning

#76. True saving faith involves "the whole personality": the mind is instructed, the emotions are stirred, and the will then acts in obedience to God.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#77. The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

John Ortberg

#78. The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

Criss Jami

#79. It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

Wilhelm Keitel

#80. Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

Charles Spurgeon

#81. Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

Adam Clarke

#82. A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.

Elizabeth George

#83. As our faith grows and we come to know more about the attributes of God and his role in our lives and our obedience, we learn to see our weakness in light of these words, "For is it God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure" (Phil. 2:13).

Hayley DiMarco

#84. We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

John Owen

#85. The call goes forth, and is at once followed by the response of obedience. The response of the disciples is an act of obedience, not a confession of faith in Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#86. 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 Haddon Spurgeon

#87. The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith - which He has given - and then push it open and walk through.

Charles R. Swindoll

#88. I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, joined by the bond of the covenant.

Roger Sherman

#89. It is an easy matter, Olav, to be a good Christian so long as God asks no more of you than to hear sweet singing in church, and to yield Him obedience while He caresses you with the hand of a father. But a man's faith is put to the test on the day God's will is not his.

Sigrid Undset

#90. Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

L. Tom Perry

#91. Faith and character are intimately related. Faith in the power of obedience to the commandments of God will forge strength of character available to you in times of urgent need.

Richard G. Scott

#92. We accept the Lord Jesus by faith, and He teaches us obedience, creating it in us. The more faith in Him that we have, the more obedience to Him we will manifest.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#93. Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.

Paul Tillich