Simple Obedience Quotes

#1. O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In little daily duties to which Thou callest us, bow down our wills to simple obedience.

Christina Rossetti

#2. You will notice that the work is simple obedience. It is not complicated things, it is not fancy things or getting great spiritual manifestations. This work is within the abilities of the most humble and the least educated.

Henry B. Eyring

#3. Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

Alfie Kohn

#4. 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

#5. And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#6. Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience.

Steven Furtick

#7. Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

Peter Kreeft

#8. Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.

Samuel Smiles

#9. But when I was alone I couldn't breathe. Everything feels like drowning except you. You're my oxygen.

Leah Raeder

#10. The way of the gospel is a simple way. Some of the requirements may appear to you as elementary and unnecessary. Do not spurn them. Humble yourselves and walk in obedience. I promise that the results that follow will be marvelous to behold and satisfying to experience.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#11. If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.

Thomas Hobbes

#12. 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

#13. An evangelist is like a newscaster on television or a journalist writing for a newspaper ... except that the evangelist's mission is to tell the Good News that never changes.

Billy Graham

#14. I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth.

Atticus Poetry

#15. Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#16. In the name of "force protection," the military often rolls up windows, builds walls, and points rifles at the outside world. The best force protection, however, is to be surrounded by friends and allies.

Eric Greitens

#17. My affliction has been ... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.

Brad Pitt

#18. For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.

Alfred Edersheim

#19. In a dream, I watch them spin and spin, calling out, pointing the way.

Morrissey

#20. When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward a simple, bold obedience.

Edward T. Welch

#21. We must remember in our struggles that our duty lies outside of trying to understand God's plan. He never asks that of us. Instead, He wants to see our trust in Him, through simple daily obedience, even in a land of affliction and confusion.

Wayne Stiles