Top 100 Obey God Quotes
#1. Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
Bayard Rustin
#2. Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life. - Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey
Ellen G. White
#3. The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will do so; otherwise it is enough for him that God commands, and enough for them that he cannot disobey.
Gardiner Spring
#4. You can test what we have talked about today. Just try two things. Listen for the whisperings of the Spirit and then commit to obey ... God will take advantage of that if you let Him
Henry B. Eyring
#5. All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established the laws. It is four us to discover them, and to learn the facts by which we can obey them.
Wheeler McMillen
#6. should only obey God when we feel like it; only that preaching Christianity primarily as a set of new behaviors will create people who act right without ever loving the right.1 This creates hypocrites, weary and resentful of God. What Is "Real" Spiritual Growth?
J.D. Greear
#7. Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
John Calvin
#8. Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already ... this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.
Oswald Chambers
#10. God uses one whom others would have passed over without a second glance. The history of obedience to the Great Commission is full of such examples. Behind this reality is a truth that God will use any who will submit to and obey His purpose for mission in their generation.
Ross Paterson
#11. We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.
Jerry Bridges
#12. I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate them, and diligently apply themselves to letters for the sake of God's honour and their own salvation and that of other men.
Jan Hus
#13. 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
#14. True repentence is to depart from evil. A return to God, seeking his grace for power to obey him.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#15. Who born so poor,
Of intellect so mean, as not to know
What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do?
As not to know what God and conscience bade,
And what they bade not able to obey?
Robert Pollok
#16. Ye're my wife, Katherine. Ye promised before God to obey me. If I want to sleep with ye, I damned well will.
Mia Marlowe
#17. It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man's refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of every problem which besets us.
Billy Graham
#18. Most of you, therefore, spend the bulk of your adult life searching for the "right" way to worship, to obey, and to serve God. The irony of all this is that I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve Me.
Neale Donald Walsch
#19. Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.
John Knox
#20. Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it's direction you get in His Word or something He's specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.
Joyce Meyer
#21. You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#22. The Bible says that when we obey God's commands, we benefit. I think we naturally assume that if we look out for our own interests and concerns, we will be happy. But people who sacrifice for others will tell you that seasons of giving are the most rewarding of their lives.
Francis Chan
#23. Every day, I find countless opportunities to decide whether I will obey God and demonstrate my love for Him or try to please myself or the world system. God is waiting for my choices.
Bill Bright
#24. Every parent's first responsibility is to teach his child that there is a God to whom he's accountable and that God has certain commands that we're obligated to obey.
Robert Jeffress
#25. We always get into trouble when we doubt God's love, because when we don't trust him, we don't obey him.
Rick Warren
#26. The Prayer of the Beasts: "Men are made for the Law of God, but the beasts and birds obey Him. Men sing hymns upon the alter of God, but the beasts and birds are His song.
Cameron Dayton
#27. Laws and conditions that tend to debase human personality - a God-given force - be they brought by the State or individuals, must be relentlessly opposed in the spirit of defiance shown by St. Peter when he said to the rulers of his day: 'Shall we obey God or man?'
Albert Lutuli
#28. Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God's Book of the Law.[*]
Anonymous
#29. Remind yourself that in this night you will face many challenges. But you have to face them and understand it 100 percent ... Obey God, his messenger, and don't fight among yourself where you become weak, and stand fast, God will stand with those who stood fast.
Mohamed Atta
#30. If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him. It will always be right and best. When He gives you a directive, you are not just to observe it, discuss it, or debate it. You are to obey it.
Henry Blackaby
#31. People tend to say Christians are always judging, but the word of God convicts Christians and urges them to obey God's commands.
Monica Johnson
#32. 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
#33. Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.
John Knox
#34. It is better to die for the truth than to live for a lie. Let it cost me what it will, I will not depart from the truth, even to save my own or my father's life. I will obey God, and trust Him for the rest.
Christoph Von Schmid
#38. By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.
Donald Miller
#39. 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
#40. Love the LORD your God, walk in all his ways, obey his commands, hold firmly to him, and serve him with all your heart and all your soul.
Anonymous
#41. No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.
John Calvin
#42. The more intimate your relationship with God becomes the easier it will be for you to obey His leadings
Sunday Adelaja
#44. They stumble at the Word of God for in their hearts they are unwilling to obey it - which makes stumbling a foregone conclusion.
J.B. Phillips
#45. Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our standing before God. He died to purify for Himself a people eager to obey Him, a people eager to be transformed into His likeness.
Jerry Bridges
#46. A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation of His will.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#47. 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
#48. 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
#50. When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands - even if we don't feel like it - God will reward us with pleasure.
Carolyn Mahaney
#51. Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey
Cnut The Great
#52. For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
Lactantius
#53. The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.
Susanna Wesley
#54. I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man.
Joyce Meyer
#55. Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do.
Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.
Francis Chan
#57. The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So often when God's timetable stretches into years we become discouraged and ... want to give up or try to work something out on our own.
Jerry Bridges
#58. Sometimes God gives instructions that go against conventional wisdom, such as treating people kindly when they're hateful. Who really wants to do that? Instructions like that my not always make sense, so that's why I need to trust and obey the One who inspired them.
George Foreman
#59. God does not fill with His Holy Spirit those who believe in the fullness of the Spirit, or those who desire Him, but those who obey Him.
F.B. Meyer
#60. Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral.
Catharine Beecher
#61. How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.
Timothy Keller
#62. Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.
Marcus Aurelius
#63. Oh god, I thought, can nothing in this jungle behave as it ought? Must fruits move and trees breathe and freshwater rivers taste of the ocean? Why must nothing obey the laws of nature? Why must everything point so heavily toward the existence of enchantment?
Hanya Yanagihara
#64. My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can't get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.
Bill Johnson
#65. Any problem that comes while I obey God (and there will be many), increases my overjoyed delight, because I know that my Father knows and cares, and I can watch and anticipate how He will unravel my problems.
Oswald Chambers
#66. God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine,
For on his throne his sceptre do they sway;
And as their subjects ought them to obey,
So kings should feare and serve their God againe.
King James I
#67. My friend, when you always say "God is in control", while you have your feet on the brake pad, you are not going anywhere! Wise up!
Israelmore Ayivor
#68. Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.
Eric Liddell
#69. You obey, and you serve Allah - that is the test. If you submit to God's will on earth, you will attain bliss in the Hereafter. The rule is strict and pure. My doubts severely diminished my chances for eternal bliss, but I found that I couldn't ignore them. I had to resolve this. *
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#70. 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
#72. What God said to Abraham was not 'Obey this law and I will bless you', but 'I will bless you; believe my promise'.
John R.W. Stott
#73. I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current that runs through all that is. Not by will or by choice. Not as a benediction but because there are laws even God must obey.
Tracy K. Smith
#74. There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.
Dwight L. Moody
#75. Real prosperity is ... Having the financial abundance to obey God's will whenever He wants you to, and however he wants you to.
Kong Hee
#76. Came because I commanded." "You commanded. I came. If you want to think you caused my coming, so be it. But God's commands are the only ones I obey willingly.
Orson Scott Card
#78. How shall we know that we obey [God]? There is but one method by which we can know it, and that is by the inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord witnessing unto our spirit that we are His, that we love Him, and that He loves us. It is by the spirit of revelation we know this.
Brigham Young
#79. It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.
Jerry Bridges
#80. You must learn to listen to and obey God, especially in a society where it's easy and expected to do what is most comfortable.
Francis Chan
#81. We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt. 7:7).
Peter Kreeft
#82. Any man may believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and be happy in that belief, and yet not obey his commandments, and at last be cut down for disobedience to the Lord's righteous requirements.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#83. God has graciously called us; now we must live up to that calling. That cannot mean less than that we should become increasingly holy, self-denying, loving, full of integrity, steeped in the knowledge of God and his Word, delighted to trust and obey our heavenly Father.
D. A. Carson
#84. The man who cannot obey God cannot say that he loves or trusts his Master. If God knows best then how dare we interfere with His will?
Alan De Jager
#85. Why is being a servant such an important aspect of faith? It's simple. If you cannot obey and serve someone you can see, will you really be able to obey and serve God whom you cannot?
Paul B. Heidt
#86. When you feel like it's too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.
Joyce Meyer
#87. It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
Albert Barnes
#88. We obey God not because we are afraid of what He will do to us if we do not. Rather, we obey Him because we are moved by all that He has done for us in Jesus Christ. He has lovingly elected us and sprinkled us with the sin-forgiving, grace-abounding blood of Jesus.
Anthony J. Carter
#89. Every Word of God is Spirit and life. When you receive and obey the Word of God, the power of God works in you.
T. B. Joshua
#90. The requirement to obey and acknowledge God and Jesus Christ has caused the teachings of the Christian tradition to stray from morality to idol worship,
creating a world in which a murderer can be forgiven and sent to heaven, whereas a loving and caring skeptic would be cast into damnation.
David G. McAfee
#91. Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#93. Obey every rule that will enhance your trust in God for greater work! Break every law that might cause a tear in your relationship with Him against your destiny!
Israelmore Ayivor
#94. When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.
Ezra Taft Benson
#95. I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God's voice is heard and His people obey Him
John Stott
#96. God is most beautifully praised when His people hear His Word, love His Word, and obey His Word.
Albert Mohler
#97. You don't need to understand. You need only to obey and then reap the blessings of that obedience.
Jim George
#98. Rather than walking in the flesh, they now "walk by the Spirit" (v. 25), being characterized by a growing desire to obey the Word of God.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#99. Your destiny lies in your own hands. But remember it was God who deposited it there!
Israelmore Ayivor
#100. 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
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