Obedience To God Quotes

• Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.

  Eric Liddell

  Spiritual, Secret, Obedience

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• The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.

  George Washington

  Men, Obedience, Duty

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• When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, I Love Him, Thinking

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.90, Revell

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• We're not called to live by human reason. All that matters is obedience to God's Word and his leading in our lives. if God says go,we'll go. If he says stay, we'll stay. When we are in his will, we are in the safest place in the world.

  Brother Yun

  World, Matter, Reason

  Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2002). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.272, Monarch Books

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• The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Tests, Life Is, Obedience

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• When you yield yourself in complete and whole-hearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you.

  Jim George

  Yield, Obedience, Great Things

  Jim George (2015). “A Man After God's Own Heart--A Devotional”, p.139, Harvest House Publishers

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• I believe Christians often perceive obedience to God as some test designed just to see if we’re really committed to Him. But what if it’s designed as God’s way of giving us what’s best for us?

  Craig Groeschel

  Christian, Believe, Giving

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• Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

  Joyce Meyer

  Pathways, Want, Obedience

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• Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Happy, God, New Year

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

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Simple, Obedience

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• Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Sincere, Obedience, Evidence

  "Works: With a Memoir of His Life".

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• Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Faithful, Obedience

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• True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.

  J. D. Greear

  Delight, Worship, Reason

  J. D. Greear (2011). “Gospel”, p.31, B&H Publishing Group

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• Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Tyrants, Conservative, Rebellion

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• Every time you open up your heart in obedience to God and worship Him with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul, our beautiful Lord responds with His magnificent presence.

  Darlene Zschech

  Beautiful, Heart, Soul

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• The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Law, Mulling Over

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.59, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God's Word.

  David Jeremiah

  Spiritual, Prayer, War

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• If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

  Charles Studd

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Giving Up, Humility, Desire

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• The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Men, Perfect

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• Our obedience to God’s commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Endless Love, Obedience

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• Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

  Eric Liddell

  Spiritual, Secret, Obedience

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• God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Obedience, Holy, Worthy

  Elisabeth Elliot (1996). “Gates of Splendor”, GuildAmerica Books

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• Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Strong, Fall, Errors

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.142, Revell

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• A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  New Beginnings, Obedience, Revival

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.14

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