Top 100 Obedience Is Quotes
#1. True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.
Dorothy Day
#2. To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.
Randy Alcorn
#3. 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
#5. When people say that they can only obey an authority in which they have total confidence, they are looking for an ideal father. . . . If the condition of obedience is emotional trust, the way is open to anarchy and the possible death of the community.
Jean Vanier
#6. Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.
L. Tom Perry
#8. A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.
Abhijit Naskar
#9. Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who deserve respect and by obeying the appropriate rules and regulations. Children, obedience is not weakness. Obedience with humility leads to discipline.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#10. If obedience is the chief thing good stood upon, why are not other laws and statutes urged as strictly as those which concern ceremonies?
George Gillespie
#11. Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.
Philip Neri
#12. From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto nulla est spes, wherever it prevails, admits no other master; it no sooner speaks than probity and duty lose their weight and blind obedience is the only virtue which slaves can still practice.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#14. Obedience is impossible apart from the gospel, but inevitable with it.
Anonymous
#15. The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.
Jerry Bridges
#16. If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.
C.S. Lewis
#17. Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#18. Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
John Of The Cross
#19. Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.
C.S. Lewis
#21. 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
#22. Obedience is the master key to effectual prayer.
Billy Graham
#23. The beauty of obedience is this: it relieves us of responsibility.
Mark Batterson
#25. 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
#26. Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.
Boyd K. Packer
#27. This marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.
Mark Helprin
#28. Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.
Charles Kimball
#29. 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
#30. Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.
Janeane Garofalo
#31. Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God's voice.
Bill Johnson
#32. Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.
David Jeremiah
#33. Whenever the conviction of God's Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.
Oswald Chambers
#34. Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience.
Rick Warren
#35. Obedience is a knife that cuts the cord of bondage.
Silence is a hammer that shatters the walls of speech.
Stillness is strength; pain a soft bed.
Put down your basin; emptiness is the only vessel.
Brian Staveley
#36. Obedience without knowledge is blind, and knowledge without obedience is lame.
Thomas Watson
#37. Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.
Martin Luther
#38. The holiness described in the Bible calls us to do more than separate ourselves from the moral pollution of the world around us. It calls us to obey God even when that obedience is costly, when it requires deliberate sacrifice and even exposure to danger.
Jerry Bridges
#39. Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
Edwin Louis Cole
#40. Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service of God. Blessed indeed are the obedient, for God will never permit them to go astray.
Saint Francis De Sales
#41. Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His.
If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
Thomas Aquinas
#43. The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior
or lack of integrity
a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain. - Tara Leigh's therapist (p.118)
Tara Leigh Cobble
#45. The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
Saint Augustine
#46. The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.
Jerry Bridges
#48. Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.
John Climacus
#50. Obedience is fickle that way. It's a virtue to its master but a vice to its slaves.
Holly Bodger
#51. When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.
Charles R. Swindoll
#53. Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.
Thomas Carlyle
#54. the vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.' The
Joe Abercrombie
#56. One of the greatest fruits of obedience is bold confidence in prayer.
Karen Wheaton
#57. The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
Robert Anton Wilson
#58. Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.
Ayn Rand
#60. 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
#62. Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God's will.
Elizabeth George
#64. Obedience is your responsibility, the outcome is God's!
Steven Furtick
#65. Obedience is the key ingredient in living out God's plan for you.
Elizabeth George
#66. The way of obedience is the way of blessing.
T. B. Joshua
#67. Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
Phillips Brooks
#68. Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.
Stanley Milgram
#70. 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
#71. Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge enters the mind.
Helen Keller
#72. Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a stand against abuse, and the least courageous people thrive in the Church today.
Kate Kelly
#73. 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
#74. What is the duty which God requireth of man? Obedience to his revealed will. It is not enough to hear God's voice, but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honour we owe to God.
Thomas Watson
#76. God wants us to walk in obedience - not victory. Obedience is oriented toward God; victory is oriented toward self.
Jerry Bridges
#77. Obedience is not creation, and thus can never produce salvation. Obedience is a response, while creation is pure choice, undictated, unrequired. Pure choice produces salvation through the pure creation of highest idea in this moment now.
Neale Donald Walsch
#78. The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
R. Lee Ermey
#79. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?
George Orwell
#80. But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
Bram Stoker
#81. Obedience is another kind of shortcut, in which we trust someone else's thinking above our own. It's easy and simple, especially when we're tired, distracted, and don't want a fight. And so obedience both amplifies and articulates all those other forces that make us blind.
Anonymous
#82. The essence of Christian obedience is not do's and don'ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.
Timothy Keller
#83. Every obedience is not easy. This is for Jesus Christ. He deserves everything!
James MacDonald
#84. When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.
Toni Morrison
#85. When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you
to succeed, He's calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him;the obedience is up to you.
David Wilkerson
#86. 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
#87. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.
L. Tom Perry
#88. Servitude is not easy. Obedience is not a one-time decision. Obedience is alife time discipline. But it does bring a cimplicty to life because it settles the issue of who is in control.
Susan Hunt
#92. The power to walk by faith in obedience is sourced in the grace of the gospel.
Matt Chandler
#93. Understanding is the reward of obedience. Obedience is the key to every door. I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.
George MacDonald
#94. God is not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the purpose of God; be faithful to Him.
Oswald Chambers
#95. We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
Anne Sullivan
#97. Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
William Penn
#98. Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
David Hare
#99. Any action which lacks in obedience is a fall, and any act of disobedience is rebellion.
Watchman Nee
#100. For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice.
Erich Fromm
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