Joy In Obedience Quotes

#1. This marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.

Mark Helprin

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

Dwight L. Moody

#3. for Roberts talks chiefly of God's love and of the great joy of living in obedience to that love.

Evan Roberts

#4. Murray is a man dedicated to serving Christ. His greatest joy is to respond in faithful obedience when his master calls. "There can be no higher and more ennobling privilege than to have the Lord of the universe as one's Owner and Master and to be his accredited representative on earth.

Chris A. Vlachos

#5. 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

#6. Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

Matthew Henry

#7. A mentor is a trusted teacher that develops lives of the vulnerable ones.

Euginia Herlihy

#8. The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.

Gary Haugen

#9. God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

Criss Jami

#10. Seek first the kingdom of God, and then trust that He will take care of our needs, even before we know what they are and where we're going.

Kevin DeYoung

#11. Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.

Halle Berry

#12. In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.

Richard J. Foster

#13. Both fear and love might cause obedience, but only love causes joy.

Jefferson Bethke

#14. Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience.

Carolyn Shields

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

Elizabeth George

#16. God does not bless religious efforts - He blesses heart-felt obedience.

Jim George

#17. When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.

Lois Lowry

#18. Comparison is often why our important roles shrink to seem so insignificant. Comparison robs us of the joy of obedience.

Jennie Allen

#19. Every one of us is trying to find our true home. Some of us are still searching. Our true home is inside, but it's also in our loved ones around us. When you're in a loving relationship, you and the other person can be a true home for each other.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#20. 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

#21. From now on, I was going to live my life, not wait for it.

Kristin Walker

#22. Obedience out of love is joy.

Heidi Baker

#23. My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.

Neale Donald Walsch

#24. Naturally we all have an inclination to command, and a great aversion to obey; and yet it is certain that it is more for our good to obey than to command; hence perfect souls have always had a great affection for obedience, and have found all their joy and comfort in it.

Saint Francis De Sales

#25. That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.

Winifred Mary Letts

#26. This, then, is true liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At the same time, it is also devoted service in obedience to righteous precept.

Augustine Of Hippo

#27. Keep discovery new paths.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to give to him indirectly through gifts to friends and those in need as well as to our own? Should we do this, perhaps many of us would discover a new Christmas joy.

John Andreas Widtsoe

#29. 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.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#30. Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

D.H. Lawrence

#31. Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Charles Spurgeon

#32. Cameras flashed. I turned away and saw spots. It was surreal. That's what people always say to describe moments that are merely unusual. I thought: You have no fucking idea what surreal is. My hangover was really warming up now, my left eye throbbing like a heart.

Gillian Flynn

#33. 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

#34. So you interrupted my date to make fun of me for still living with my parents. Couldn't you have done that on a night I didn't have a date? That's most nights, in case you're curious.

Cassandra Clare

#35. If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

D. A. Carson