Top 100 Quotes About Obeying
#1. 22And Samuel said, w Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, x to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
Anonymous
#2. It was God's love which knew that men were incapable of obeying His law, and it was His love which promised a Redeemer, a Savior, who would save His people from their sins.
Billy Graham
#3. Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress.
Abhijit Naskar
#4. The beauty of a society is not just in the laws upon which the society revolves, but how the society regards, upholds and obeys the laws which set boundaries for a beautiful and a harmonious society!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#5. Uncle had learned long ago that obeying a rule in fact but not in spirit was very hard on people who say we for I and who do not allow dogs on their premises.
E.L. Konigsburg
#6. To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.
Friedrich Schiller
#7. But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.
Howard Zinn
#8. Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
Ilsa J. Bick
#9. Then I'd been determined to be the best blind foster the world had ever known, following every rule, obeying every protocol, the very model of royal fae youth. Maybe that way, they would send for me. I could go home.
Seanan McGuire
#10. A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch.
Robert Breault
#11. For now, Lady Queen," he said, "allow us to continue to obey you. But give us honorable instructions, Lady Queen," he said, turning a flushed face to hers. "Ask us to do honorable things, so that we may have the honor of obeying you.
Kristin Cashore
#12. Clung tightly to the Lord, faithfully following Him and obeying His commands (v. 6).
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#13. Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.
Al Green
#14. While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
John Yoo
#15. We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
John Calvin
#16. Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.
Theodore Dalrymple
#19. The key to a thrilling life of being sensitive to the voice of God and immediately obeying Him is the firm belief that God's plan for our lives is fundamentally better than anything we can dream up.
Rod Loy
#20. If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.
Oswald Chambers
#21. Sometimes, after shedding all the loads with the view of making your heavy and sinking boat lighter so that you can sail and move on with the journey of purposeful life, you realize that there is one more thing to offload: disobedience, and there is one more thing to load: absolute faith!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#22. It is through the repeated process of feeling impressions, recording them, and obeying them that one learns to depend on the direction of the Spirit more than on communication through the other five senses.
Richard G. Scott
#23. Holt did nothing of the sort. He wasn't the 'obeying' kind of dog.
Kellyn Roth
#24. The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.
Paul Ricoeur
#25. It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.
Joyce Meyer
#26. when you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of your life is restricted and directed by the rule and the ruling
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#27. I learned that we must obey in faith before we feel better or different. At this time, though, obeying in faith, to me, felt like throwing myself off a cliff. Faith that endures is heroic, not sentimental. And
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#28. Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God
John G. Lake
#29. We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.
Paul Tournier
#30. Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.
Ellen Goodman
#31. The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.
Phillips Brooks
#32. The sufficiency of Scripture means that Scripture contained all the words of God he intended his people to have at each stage of redemptive history, and that it now contains all the words of God we need for salvation, for trusting him perfectly, and for obeying him perfectly.
Wayne Grudem
#33. Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God's will, even if you have to stand alone.
Ulisses Soares
#34. The law of tithing is one of the most important
ever revealed to man ... Through obeying
this law the blessings of prosperity and
success will be given to the Saints.
Lorenzo Snow
#35. I assumed that they had heard it enough times and that they had believed it. Jesus and the cross? That was old news. The real action was in obeying, not in remembering.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#36. In trying to stop your tears, I was already obeying the officer's command to the letter, not out of patriotic allegiance, but out of cowardice, in order not to feel the pain of my own heart, breaking.
Ruth Ozeki
#37. I read in your Word that the very best kind of pleasure is delighting in doing what you want. Your way is right and good and it brings life. You are pleased when I follow it, because you want the best for me.
Amy E. Mason
#38. I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
Iggy Pop
#39. So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue.
Samuel Johnson
#40. A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#41. May spending time with You be my first priority, may listening and obeying mark my life, may extravagant childlike joy and amazement mark my demeanor, may an openness to share your grace quickly and easily flow from me, may I seek your forgiveness and excitedly accept it.
Katie Kiesler
#42. Thank You, Lord, for all that is new this day - including all my fresh opportunities for loving You, obeying You, enjoying You. Open my eyes to see these things. Help me grasp how I can make the most of them.
Ruth Myers
#43. With her face tilted up to his, the subtle edge of moonlight touched along the edge of one high cheekbone, the tilted edge of one eye, and those beautiful, enticing lips. Obeying an impulse he couldn't put into words, he lowered his head and covered her mouth with his.
Thea Harrison
#44. I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order
pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature.
Kate Zambreno
#45. You will never be more secure, you will never be more safe, and you will never be happier, more satisfied, than when you are trusting and obeying: resting in sovereignty and surrendering to sovereignty.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#46. 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
#47. He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it.
Walter Russell
#49. The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Bertolt Brecht
#50. But after a while, obeying a new script that has just occurred to her, she begins to behave differently from the way she has acted the last two times they have met. She begins a false performance of openness, as if she has succumbed to his persuasiveness.
Natasha Walter
#51. No matter how great the power is that the Holy Spirit releases through a prophet, we are to focus our hearts and attention first on loving, worshiping, and obeying Jesus.
Mike Bickle
#52. Just go along with things and let your mind move freely. Resign yourself to what cannot be avoided and nourish what is within you - this is best. What more do you have to do to fulfill your mission? Nothing is as good as following orders (obeying fate) - that's how difficult it is!
Burton Watson
#53. I went from one state of life to another state of life by obeying, understanding, and applying the principles that are laid down in the Bible.
Myles Munroe
#54. Promise One: Love and listen to my father. This whole time I've been obeying his every word, following all the rules, saying all the right things. But I never did what he really wanted all along.
Because I was never really listening.
Jackson Pearce
#55. Faithfully obeying God's commandments is essential to receiving the Holy Ghost. We are reminded of this truth each week as we listen to the sacrament prayers and worthily partake of the bread and water.
David A. Bednar
#56. Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.
George Shearing
#57. In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct.
Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep obeying day in and day out.
Chitralekha Paul
#58. Obeying her silent demand, he fused their hips together in a tight, deeply satisfying grinding motion that shot through her like a bolt of lightning. She folded herself around him and purred as sweet release streaked and spread through her, until every inch of her glowed with delight.
Lisa Kleypas
#60. When we don't understand and don't agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we can't understand His wisdom. In faith, we are to accept His wisdom, His Word, and His workings, trusting in Him and obeying His commands.
Elizabeth George
#61. Having a girlfriend was no longer my greatest need. Knowing and obeying Him was . I wanted to please Him in my relationships even if it meant looking radical and foolish to other people - even if it meant kissing dating goodbye.
Joshua Harris
#62. It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.
Rosa Parks
#63. Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
Edward Abbey
#64. Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.
Jerry Bridges
#65. We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today
even in the evangelical church
over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.
Alistair Begg
#66. You don't become a success by breaking the rules. You don't become a success by obeying the rules. You become a success by inventing the rules.
Chloe Thurlow
#67. I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.
Karen Marie Moning
#68. The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.
H.G.Wells
#69. There's 150,000 students here from the Middle East. If 40% of them have overstayed their visa, don't we need to know where they are, what they're doing, are they obeying our rules?
Rand Paul
#70. Dignity is the reward of obeying your heart.
Wes Fesler
#71. Let us learn from the Virgin Mary how to be bolder in obeying the word of God.
Pope Francis
#72. The mind of a queen
Is a thing to fear. A queen is used
To giving commands, not obeying them;
And her rage once roused is hard to appease.
Euripides
#73. There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#74. The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.
David Deutsch
#75. The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?
Lauren Bacall
#76. God first acts in grace and mercy by delivering the people, and then the people respond in gratitude and thanksgiving by obeying the commandments. Put succinctly: the crossing of the Red Sea comes before the giving of the Ten Commandments. How
Richard J. Foster
#77. God is God; you are but one of His creatures. Your only joy is to be found in obeying Him, your true fulfillment is to be found in worshiping Him, your only wisdom is to be found in trusting and knowing Him.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#78. Not that the study is not important. A Jewish rabbi I once studies with would often say, 'For us Jews studying the bible is more important than obeying it because if you don't understand it rightly you will obey it wrongly and your obedience will be disobedience.
This is also true.
Eugene H. Peterson
#80. Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.
C.S. Lewis
#81. Religion doesn't mean obeying some textual rules from books that were written hundreds or thousands of years ago. Religion means realization of the self.
Abhijit Naskar
#82. Promises aren't received by asking the Lord for them, trusting him to give them to us, or confessing them. They are the life that emanates from obeying his commandments - Wisdom.
Robert Holland
#83. Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.
Jerry Bridges
#84. I don't believe any sort of traveler does a better job than any other sort of traveler at obeying traffic safety laws. It's difficult to foresee a camera program that can be used with bikers and walkers.
Robert James Thomson
#85. Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.
Ma Jun
#86. Where God and man are in relationship, this must be the ideal. God must be the communicator, and man must be in the listening, obeying attitude. If men and women are not willing to assume
this listening attitude, there will be no meeting with God in living, personal experience ...
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#87. in how many other areas of our lives are we obeying rules we don't understand
Paulo Coelho
#88. Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.
Mason Cooley
#89. Jose loved giving orders to the servants, and they loved obeying her. She always made them feel they were taking part in some drama.
Katherine Mansfield
#90. Perfect obedience would be perfect happiness, if only we had perfect confidence in the power we were obeying.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#91. It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.
Dan Simmons
#92. Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#93. Writing is an act of love. If it is not it is only handwriting. It consists in obeying the driving force of plants and trees and in broadcasting sperm far around us.
The richness of the world is in its wastefulness.
Jean Cocteau
#94. Obeying God's laws doesn't make us holy because we are already holy in Christ. Obeying God's laws reveals our love and unleashes God's best!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#95. Life is a loan;
you are a debtor,
and God is your creditor.
Pay Him back by obeying Him
Matshona Dhliwayo
#96. Barack Obama has come closer than any figure in recent history to obeying a direct call of the people to the brutal and bloody fields of political mission.
Michael Eric Dyson
#97. Obeying is like eating and drinking. There's nothing like it if you've been without it for too long.
Hermann Hesse
#98. Wo unto that Nation or house or people who seek to hinder my People from obeying the Patriarchal Law of Abraham which leadeth to a Celestial Glory ... for whosoever doeth those things shall be damned Saith the Lord.
Wilford Woodruff
#99. Where it gets weird is that nowadays there are millions of people on this earth who call themselves followers of Jesus, but their lives look nothing like His, and they're not obeying the things that He called them to do.
Francis Chan
#100. Knowing the voice of the Lord, obeying Him, and dwelling in His presence," William recounted.
Rick Joyner
