Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes About Obedience

Quotes about: Obedience

• Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray for revival while ignoring or actually flouting the plain precept laid down in the Scriptures is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Offering, Waste

• When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

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  Goes On, Spirit, Problem

• The Christian gospel is a message of freedom through grace and we must stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. But what shall we do with our freedom? The Apostle Paul grieved that some of the believers of his day took advantage of their freedom and indulged the flesh in the name of Christian liberty. They threw off discipline, scorned obedience and made gods of their own bellies.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Names, Discipline

• True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

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  Compromise, Obedience, Our Relationship

• 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.

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  Faith, Christian, Spring

• To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Teaching, Mean, Essence

• The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

• Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

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  Prayer, Obedience, Substitutes

• To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Errors, Opposites, Obedience

• Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Godly, Saws, Surrender

• Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.

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  Spiritual, Humility, Exercise

• If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.

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  Trying, Have Faith, Obedience

• If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.

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  Christian, Loving Life, Light

• The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Keys, Mind, Obedience

• Without doubt the emphasis in Christian teaching today should be on worship. There is little danger that we shall become merely worshipers and neglect the practical implications of the gospel. No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist. Fellowship with God leads straight to obedience and good works. That is the divine order and it can never be reversed.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Strong, Teaching

• I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Saviour and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as Lord as long as we want to... The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scripture... Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility.

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  Christian, Self, Circles

• Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.

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  Love Is, Finals, Tests

• We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Reality, Cities, Voice

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