Obedience Quotes

• God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

  Charles Stanley

  Responsible, Disobedience, Consequence

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• What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Self Love, Suffering

  "Encountering the Extraordinary". Essay by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1934), published in "Meditations on the Cross" edited by Manfred Weber and translated by Douglas W. Scott (p. 1), 1998.

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• Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated.

  James E. Faust

  True Freedom, Liberated

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• Eid is not for the one who wears #new clothes. Eid is for the one whose obedience rises. Eid is not for the one with beautiful clothes and fine means of transport, Eid is for the one whose sins are forgiven.

  Ibn Rajab

  Beautiful, Mean, Clothes

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• Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

  Martin Luther

  Crowns, Virtue, Honour

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• One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Soul, Body

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.135, Discovery House

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• Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Break, Knows

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• Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

  Sue Grafton

  Independence, Individuality, Cooperation

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Character, Order, Discipline

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• We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Blind, Blind Obedience, Obedient

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Maturity, Years

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Bringing Sons Unto Glory: Studies in the Life of Our Lord”, p.18, Discovery House

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• Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Maturity, Age, Christianity

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• The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Humility, Degrees, Firsts

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• Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.

  Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa'di

  Lying, Found, Anguish

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• The most beloved manifestation of obedience to God is trust in Him

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Beloved, Manifestation, Obedience To God

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• If you're anxious about the state of the world, that's understandable. But trade your anxiety for the blessing of hearing the words of Scripture, keeping them in faith and obedience, and remembering the time is near.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• 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!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Goes On, Spirit, Problem

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• When love firmly settles in the heart, the limbs will only act in obedience to Allah.

  Ibn Rajab

  Heart, Settling, Limbs

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• Love is the foundation of all obedience.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Love Is, Foundation

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient.

  Billy Graham

  Successful, Doe, Obedient

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• He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

  Solon

  Leadership, Learning, Knowing

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• Faith that saves has one distinguishing quality: saving faith is a faith that produces obedience; it is a faith that brings about a way of life.

  Billy Graham

  Quality, Saving, Way

  Billy Graham (2011). “Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness”, p.109, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Godly, Christian Inspirational, Christianity

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• Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.

  John Climacus

  Humility, Resurrection, Burial

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• Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.21, SCM Press

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