If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him. It will always be right and best. When He gives you a directive, you are not just to observe it, discuss it, or debate it. You are to obey it.
– Henry Blackaby
Obedience | Service
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
– Oswald Chambers
Faith | Leadership | Obedience
Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers
– Francis Chan
Truth | Obedience
God is looking for willing hearts… God has no favorites. You do not have to be special, but you have to be available.
– Winkie Pratney
Obedience
I am a spiritual being… After this body is dead, my spirit will soar. I refuse to let what will rot rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by my faith. I will be influenced only by God. I will be taught only by Christ.
– Max Lucado
Obedience | Self-control
All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose he has given them.
– Oswald Chambers
Obedience
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
– Augustine
Obedience | Men
God’s commands are designed to guide you to life’s very best. You will not obey Him, if you do not believe Him and trust Him. You cannot believe Him if you do not love Him. You cannot love Him unless you know Him.
– Henry Blackaby
Obedience | God | Trust
The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.
– A. W. Tozer
The Bible | Obedience
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.
– A. W. Tozer
Revival | Obedience
Taking up my “cross” means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.
– A. W. Pink
Obedience | The Cross | Surrender
Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
– Jim Elliot
Obedience
Truth without obedience is hypocrisy; obedience without truth is legalism.
– Jack Wellman
Hypocrisy | Obedience
The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, “Father, Your will for today is mine. Your pleasure for today is mine. Your work for today is mine. I trust You to be God. You lead me today and I will follow.”
– Kay Arthur
Obedience | Submission
If a commission by an earthly king is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
– David Livingstone
Obedience | Sacrifice
It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.
– A. W. Tozer
Salvation | Obedience
Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.
– Leonard Ravenhill
Obedience | Age
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
– Max Lucado
Obedience | Self-confidence
Salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred Scriptures… Apart from obedience there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility.
– A. W. Tozer
Obedience
It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to China. With these facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the gospel to every creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special call to stay at home.
– Hudson Taylor
Obedience | The Gospel
Nine-tenths of the difficulties are overcome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord’s will, whatever it may be. When one is truly in this state, it is usually but a little way to the knowledge of what His will is.
– George Mueller
Obedience | The Heart | Overcoming
A ton of prayer will not produce what an ounce of obedience will.
– Ed Cole
Obedience
We might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
– Ronald Reagan
Obedience
See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.
– John Owen
Faith | Obedience | Peace
Are we willing to publicly confess our allegiance to God and His ability to save?
– Crystal McDowell
Witnessing | Obedience
Let thy child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
– Thomas Fuller
Children | Obedience
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
– A. W. Tozer
Faith | Obedience | Surrender
I’m not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.
– Kirk Cameron
Humility | Obedience
You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.
– Adrian Rogers
Obedience
In vain I have searched the Bible, looking for examples of early believers whose lives were marked by rigidity, predictability, inhibition, dullness, and caution. Fortunately, grim, frowning, joyless saints in Scriptures are conspicuous by their absence. Instead, the examples I find are of adventurous, risk-taking, enthusiastic, and authentic believers whose joy was contagious even in times of full trial. Their vision was broad even when death drew near. Rules were few and changes were welcome. The contrast between then and now is staggering.
– Chuck Swindoll
The Bible | Faith | Obedience
It is Christ who is to be exalted, not our feelings. We will know Him by obedience, not by emotions. Our love will be shown by obedience, not by how good we feel about God at a given moment. “And love means following the commands of God.” “Do you love Me?” Jesus asked Peter. “Feed My lambs.” He was not asking, “How do you feel about Me?” for love is not a feeling. He was asking for action.
– Elisabeth Elliot
Obedience | Feelings
Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.
– Samuel Rutherford
Obedience
Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.
– Richard J. Foster
Joy | Obedience
What does it mean to glorify God? It does not mean to make Him more glorious. It means to acknowledge His glory, and to value it above all things, and to make it known.
– John Piper
Obedience
A passion for God isn’t necessarily the same as abiding in God; it must be coupled with obedience to be true love for God.
– Ed Cole
Passion | Obedience
Abide in Me says Jesus. Cling to Me. Stick fast to Me. Live the life of close and intimate communion with Me. Get nearer to Me. Roll every burden on Me. Cast your whole weight on Me. Never let go your hold on Me for a moment. Be, as it were, rooted and planted in Me. Do this and I will never fail you. I will ever abide in you.
– J. C. Ryle
Obedience | Faith
Don’t come down here to cry about it, go home and live it!
– A. W. Tozer
Obedience
Cultivate prompt, exact, unquestioning, joyous obedience to every command that it is evident from its context applies to you. Be on the lookout for new orders from your King. Blessing lies in the direction of obedience to them. God’s commands are but signboards that mark the road to present success and blessedness and to eternal glory.
– R.A. Torrey
Obedience
The place God calls you to is where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
– Frederick Buechner
Obedience
Partial obedience is not obedience at all; to single out easy things that do not oppose our lusts, which are not against our reputation, therein some will do more than they need; but our obedience must be universal to all God’s commandments, and that because He commands it. Empty relationships are nothing; if we profess ourselves God’s servants and do not honor Him by our obedience, we take but an empty title.
– Richard Sibbes
Obedience
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
– Albert Barnes
The Bible | Obedience
The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
– Watchman Nee
Obedience | Attitude
Your faith level is determined by your obedience level.
– Jack Hyles
Obedience
If you do not plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don’t begin, for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of citizenship, a change of governments, a change of allegiance. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; it is not for you.
– Kay Arthur
Obedience | Christianity | Commitment
We are only asking you to give to Christ that which you give to others, to transfer the old emotions, the blessed emotions, the exercise of which makes gladness in the life here below, to transfer them to Him, and to rest safe in the Lord. Faith is trust.
– Alexander MacLaren
Obedience
We are only asking you to give to Christ that which you give to others, to transfer the old emotions, the blessed emotions, the exercise of which makes gladness in the life here below, to transfer them to Him, and to rest safe in the Lord. Faith is trust.
– Alexander MacLaren
Obedience
If you look up into His face and say, “Yes, Lord, whatever it costs,” at that moment He’ll flood your Life with His presence and power.
– Alan Redpath
Obedience | The Holy Spirit | Power
All the paths of the Lord are loving and faithful” Psalm 25:10 I have pondered this verse lately, and have found that it feeds my spirit. All does not mean “all – except the paths I am walking in now,” or “nearly all – except this especially difficult and painful path.” All must mean all. So, your path with its unexplained sorrow or turmoil, and mine with its sharp flints and briers – and both our paths, with their unexplained perplexity, their sheer mystery – they are His paths, on which he will show himself loving and faithful. Nothing else; nothing less.
– Amy Carmichael
Obedience
Jesus organized the church, which is His vineyard. He commands all to go into the vineyard and work. All who are united to Christ by faith, and are thus members of His mystical body, should be members of His visible church.
– James H. Aughey
Obedience | Service | Unity
In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what our attitude towards His will is. If we honestly seek and wholeheartedly obey His desires, our fellowship remains unbroken, even though there should be many unknown sins in us. Should fellowship be determined by the holiness of God, who among all the most holy saints in the past and the present would be qualified to hold a moment’s perfect communion with Him?
– Watchman Nee
Obedience | Attitude | Fellowship
The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.
– Alan Redpath
Obedience | Surrender
The disciples’ decision to obey Jesus after the Ascension proved to be a pivot point in history. The word was never the same again.
– Chuck Colson
Obedience
There’s some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which will remain undone and incomplete until by faith and obedience you step into the will of God.
– Alan Redpath
Obedience | Redemption
Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.
– Alan Redpath
Obedience
Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Love | Obedience
If you look up into His face and say, “Yes, Lord, whatever it costs,” at that moment He’ll flood your Life with His presence and power.
– Alan Redpath
Obedience | The Holy Spirit | Power
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
– William Cowper
Obedience | Contentment
Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.
– Matthew Henry
Joy | Obedience
If we wish to live out the life of the body of Christ we must cover our own head; that is to say, we must not have our personal opinion, egoistic will or selfish thought. We can only obey the Lord and let Him be the Head.
– Watchman Nee
Obedience
There’s some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which will remain undone and incomplete until by faith and obedience you step into the will of God.
– Alan Redpath
Obedience | Redemption
Obedience means marching right on whether we feel like it or not. Many times we go against our feelings. Faith is one thing, feeling is another.
– Dwight L. Moody
Obedience | Feelings
The believer needs to acknowledge that his flesh deserves nothing else than the curse of death. Let us pray that we may know what the flesh exactly is and how it must be crucified. What is lacking today is not a better living but a better dying!
– Watchman Nee
Obedience
Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
– Origen
Obedience
You can only learn what obedience is by obeying.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Obedience
This is none other than a satisfied life. The Christian cherishes nothing but God; henceforth he is satisfied with His will.
– Watchman Nee
Obedience
On at least four separate occasions and recorded in the four Gospels the Lord Jesus called His disciples to deny their soul life, deliver it to death, and then to follow Him.
– Watchman Nee
Obedience
Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Faith | Obedience
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
– Richard Cecil
Obedience | The Bible
True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on “looking off” to the Savior!
– Watchman Nee
Obedience | Feelings
Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.
– John Knox
Obedience
Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.
– Charles Stanley
Obedience
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
– Albert Barnes
The Bible | Obedience
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
– Thomas a Kempis
Obedience
If we allow natural affection and human admiration or the lack of these to govern our efforts we will surely fail in our work and our lives shall be ruined. To obtain genuine fruitfulness we frequently need to disregard fleshly relationships. Our thoughts and desires must be offered completely to the Lord.
– Watchman Nee
Obedience | Relationships
No man ruleth safely but that he is willingly ruled.
– Thomas a Kempis
Obedience
That strong self-assertive will of mine must go to the Cross, and I must give myself over wholly to the Lord. We cannot expect a tailor to make us a coat if we do not give him any cloth, nor a builder to build us a house if we let him have no building material; and in just the same way we cannot expect the Lord to live out His life in us if we do not give Him our lives in which to live. Without reservations, without controversy, we must give ourselves to Him to do as He pleases with us.
– Watchman Nee
Obedience | The Cross
But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
– George Whitefield
Obedience
When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.
– Abraham Kuyper
Obedience
When the Lord’s blessed will bloweth cross your desires, it is best, in humility, to strike sail to Him, and to be willing to be led any way our Lord pleaseth.
– Samuel Rutherford
Obedience
We are sinners simply because we choose to sin or live selfishly. We are never held accountable for what we are not the author of. Ability is always the measure of responsibility. God has given us the ability to direct our lives, either according to intelligence in recognition of our obligation to God and our fellowmen, or according to selfishness and unintelligence in the supreme seeking of our own happiness.
– Assorted Authors
Obedience | Responsibility
The words of St. Paul, ‘No man can call Jesus Lord, but by the Holy Ghost,’ show us the necessity of eyeing God in our good works, and even in our minutest thoughts; knowing that none are pleasing to him, but those which he forms in us and with us. From hence we learn that we cannot serve him, unless he use our tongue, hands, and heart, to do by himself and his Spirit whatever he would have us to do.
– John Wesley
Obedience
Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.
– John Stott
Obedience
God’s means of delivering us from sin is not by making us stronger and stronger, but by making us weaker and weaker.
– Watchman Nee
Obedience
Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.
– Elisabeth Elliot
Obedience
Just as a servant knows that he must first obey his master in all things, so the surrender to an implicit and unquestionable obedience must become the essential characteristic of our lives.
– Andrew Murray
Obedience | Holiness | Surrender
The proximate result of obedience to God is inward conformity to the Divine image.
– Charles Hodge
Obedience
An ounce of obedience is worth a pound of protection.
– Woodrow Kroll
Obedience
Rest in this – it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you.
– Jim Elliot
Obedience | Rest
A child of God, though he cannot serve the Lord perfectly, yet he serves him willingly; his will is in the law of the Lord; he is not a pressed soldier, but a volunteer. By the beating of this pulse we may judge whether there be spiritual life in us or no.
– Thomas Watson
Obedience
This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.
– Elisabeth Elliot
Service | Obedience
All thought, cleverness, knowledge, talent and gift-which the world superstitiously worships-must be set aside in order to enable one to trust the Lord wholly. The Lord’s people should persistently acknowledge their own unworthiness and incompetency.
– Watchman Nee
Obedience | Trust
Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
– Watchman Nee
Faithful | Obedience
Just as a servant knows that he must first obey his master in all things, so the surrender to an implicit and unquestionable obedience must become the essential characteristic of our lives.
– Andrew Murray
Obedience | Holiness | Surrender
The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.
– Alan Redpath
Obedience | Surrender
The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
– Thomas a Kempis
Obedience
Sacrifice without obedience is sacrilege.
– William Gurnall
Sacrifice | Obedience
God promises spectacular blessings to those of you who remain single in Christ, and He gives you and extraordinary calling for your life. To be single in Christ is, therefore, not a falling short of God’s best, but a path of Christ-exalting, covenant-keeping obedience that many are called to walk.
– John Piper
Blessings | Obedience
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
– George Washington
Obedience | Discipline | War
When we want to know God’s will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
– F.B. Meyer
Perseverance | Obedience | Circumstances
You could never tell what Christ would have you to be about, but if you go with Him in everything, there will be consistency with the ways of Christ. If you go with self, you will find a stop.
– G.V. Wigram
Obedience