463 Quotes About Obedience

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.

Sacrifice is connected to anointingDedication is connected to VisionObedience is connected to LordshipThese are all so interconnected and intertwined in our daily walk with Jesus

And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

I presume to know the plans that God has for me, when far too often they are the plans that I’ve crafted. And once I’ve got them shaped just the way I want them, I go ahead and attribute them to God so that I can pursue them with a clear conscious. And while there are innumerable recipes for disaster, it’s hard to cook up one that’s more disastrous than this one.

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.

Whenever you jump off a cliff at GOD's command, be sure that you will fly! Either by soaring on the palm of His hands or on the parachute of that command or you will suddenly have wings pop out and sustain you in the air. Either way, you will be flying and He'll be the one behind it all.

Faithfulness to God requires your obedience, even when it’s difficult.

In no way do I want my stubbornness tamed. Rather, I want the whole of it brought into submission to God so that it might be doubled, even tripled in unchecked obedience to His service.

Following Jesus may be personal, but it is never private.