463 Quotes About Obedience

The Lord has called me to obedience, though not always to success.

Any fool can “obey” an order,’ Hamo said, darkly. ‘The clever thing is to interpret it.

If any kind of obedience, regardless of what motivates it, is what God is after, He would have showcased the Pharisees and exhorted all of us to follow their lead, to imitate them. But He didn't. Jesus called them 'whitewashed tombs'--clean on the outside, dead on the inside.

When we think seriously about what it will cost others if we obey the call of Jesus, we tell God He doesn't know what our obedience will cost.

God doesn't owe you an explanation or reason for everything he asks you to do. Understanding can wait, but obedience can't.

The one who expects God to do as he asks Him must on his part do whatever God bids him.

If you love a person you will obey that person.

A good son obeys his father; A good student obeys his teacher;A good employee obeys his employer;Obedience lifts you to a higher position in life.

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience. In our eagerness to get rid of the legalistic doctrine of works we have thrown out the baby with the bath and gotten rid of obedience as well.