Obeying Quotes

• If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Majority, Intention

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.265, Discovery House

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• You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Obedience

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.34, SCM Press

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• A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Disappointment, Believe, Confusion

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• It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.

  Joyce Meyer

  Reading

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• If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Order, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.133, Discovery House

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• Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

  John Ruskin

  Devil, Chance, Obedience

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• Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and so is trying to soften the hard doctrines instead of submitting to them. Worse still, by not obeying, these . . . lack real knowing. Lacking real knowing, they cannot defend their faith and may become critics instead of defenders!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Faith, Fun, Real

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• He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Leadership, Insperational

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.86, Aristotle

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• We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.

  John Calvin

  Promise, Rely, Commandments

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• The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• Those who know the least obey the best.

  George Farquhar

  Spirituality, Obedience, Knows

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Sir Harry Wildair”

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• We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.

  Paul Tournier

  Motivation, Ideas, Littles

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• I went from one state of life to another state of life by obeying, understanding, and applying the principles that are laid down in the Bible.

  Myles Munroe

  Understanding, Principles, States

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• It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

  Blaise Pascal

  Obedience, Should, Strongest

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

  Aristotle

  Love, Inspirational, Heartbreak

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• Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

  Douglas Bader

  Wise, Wisdom, Work

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  If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Katharine Hepburn (1987). “The making of The African Queen, or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone.

  Ulisses Soares

  Obeying God, Moral, Stand Alone

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• Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soldier, Coward, Command

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4016, Manonmani Publishers

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• Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Listening, Obeying God

  "The obedience that sets us free". Morning Meditation in The Chapel of The Domus Sanctae Marthae, thecatholicgeeks.com. Thursday, 11 April 2013.

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• You will never be more secure, you will never be more safe, and you will never be happier, more satisfied, than when you are trusting and obeying: resting in sovereignty and surrendering to sovereignty.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Safe, Sovereignty, Satisfied

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• A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.

  Publilius Syrus

  Husband, Wife, Virtuous

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• Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.

  Mason Cooley

  Fear, Work, Law

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• Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

  Roscoe Conkling

  Country, New York, Party

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• Above all, you ask if the God of Christians forgives those who do not believe and who do not seek faith. Given the premise, and this is fundamental, that the mercy of God is limitless for those who turn to him with a sincere and contrite heart, the issue for the unbeliever lies in obeying his or her conscience.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Lying, Believe

  "Letter To A Non-Believer". w2.vatican.va. September 4, 2013.

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