Quotes About Christian Obedience

#1. Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

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

Timothy Keller

#3. 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

#4. Phillip hardened his grip on Totka's. "For all our manipulations, God always manages to get His way."
"A beautiful woman once told me our Jesus Creator is a good and wise chief, worthy of obedience without question. His plan is perfect. Wait, and you will see.

April W. Gardner

#5. The cross is the suffering the Christian endures as a consequence of his following Christ in perfect obedience. Christ chose the cross by choosing the path that led to it; and it is so with His followers. In the way of obedience stands the cross, and we take the cross when we enter that way.

A.W. Tozer

#6. The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.

Jerry Bridges

#7. I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?

C.S. Lewis

#8. I believe there is an obedience to the Gospel, there is a self-denial and a bearing of the cross, if you are to be a follower of Christ. Being a Christian is a serious business.

Billy Graham

#9. The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.

R.C. Sproul

#10. I wish to walk and keep the ways of God

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.

A.W. Tozer

#12. Obedience is the Christian's crown.

Friedrich Schiller

#13. When you yield yourself in complete and wholehearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you.

Jim George

#14. Faithfulness to God requires your obedience, even when it's difficult.

Jim George

#15. I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

Keith Miller

#16. The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

Charles Stanley

#17. Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility. There are very few in the world today who have obedience. Our humility is in proportion to our obedience.

Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

#18. Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don't need to know more, we need to do more.

Mark Batterson

#19. So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us a radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching.

John R.W. Stott

#20. No matter how many rules we make for ourselves, rules don't create godly relationships. Only leaning on our faithful Father and longing to please Him with everything we do will set the stage for a beautiful romance!

Eric Ludy

#21. 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

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

Jim George

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

Elizabeth George

#24. Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

John Owen

#25. Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

Michel De Montaigne

#26. In the Upper Room and on Calvary's hill, Jesus teaches us that the most important aspects of a well-lived life are love, humility and obedience.

Joan Campbell

#27. 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

#28. God give grace for obedience to His commandments.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. 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

#30. Helping people to know God and to be obedient to him is perhaps the greatest gift we can bestow. Understood in this way, Christian education can be be one of the most compassionate ministries of the church.

Perry G. Downs

#31. Obedience to God's Word begins by being determined to make no compromise with His ways. It requires a clear understanding that God's rules and laws are for your benefit, and for you to do all you can to live by them.

Stormie O'martian

#32. This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync with God is about obedience. Any other pursuit will get in the way.

Franklin Graham

#33. All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel.

Jakob Bohme

#34. Obedience decks the Christian most.

Friedrich Schiller

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

Mark Galli

#36. The greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Kenneth Boa

#38. Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of His servants.

Charles Colson

#39. The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world system is concerned. We are not to conform. A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the
moral standards of this world.

Billy Graham

#40. The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.

David Jeremiah

#41. If I could simplify the Christian life to one thing, it would be obedience.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#42. The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

William Barclay

#43. The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

John Strachan

#44. The key to Christian success is adherence and obedience to him, his Word, and his purposes for life.

Jack Coleman

#45. Lord, if you show me the way, I will follow You.

Brother Andrew

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

Jim George

#47. I believe Christians often perceive obedience to God as some test designed just to see if we're really committed to Him. But what if it's designed as God's way of giving us what's best for us?

Craig Groeschel

#48. God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody; he should proselytize because the Gospel being shared is the ultimate act of love: because he thinks he can love everybody.

Criss Jami

#49. Obedience unlocks the riches of the Christian experience. Prayer prompts and nurtures obedience, putting the heart into the proper "frame of mind" to desire obedience.
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R.C. Sproul

#50. Saddest of all God's creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward love to God.

Walter Chantry

#51. The insistence on the knowledge of intellectual mysteries, either as an indispensable addition to or as a substitute for simple obedience to the claims of the Christian life, has always been a weakness of the Church.

R.H. Charles

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

J.I. Packer

#55. 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

#56. Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

Mark Twain

#57. Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please ... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.

Kevin DeYoung

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

Sara Dormon

#59. Obedience leads to a powerful, confident life.

Jim George

#60. Picking up our Bibles, we should give God our full attention, withhold our opinion until we understand what He is saying, listen without interrupting, and respond with understanding and obedience.

David Jeremiah

#61. An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent.

Jim George

#62. What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.

Vance Havner

#63. 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

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

Sara Dormon

#65. In your walk with Christ, you shall meet crises, but, when crises arise, remember Christ!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Jim George

#67. When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.

Joseph Lancaster

#68. Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?

Ronald J. Sider

#69. That's the Christian life: a long journey in the same direction. It's about perseverance. Obedience. And a whole lot of grace. The hand of the master winemaker, forever pruning, producing fruit, and then making something profound and lovely out of our meager harvest.

Nicole Baart

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

Jim George

#71. Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience.

Craig D. Lounsbrough