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“The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all.”

Firsts Christ Steps Humility Obedience Cherish First Steps

Author:Benedict of Nursia

“Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!”

Used Prayer Obedience Hypocrisy Substitutes Time Flies

Author:Charles Studd

“Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental.”

Regard Fundamentals Loyalty Obedience Benevolence Peacefulness Trustworthiness

Author:Ge Hong

“Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.”

Should Simple Player Team Demand Obedience Conformity Team Player

Author:Alfie Kohn

“Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.”

Way Doe Silence Equal Obedience

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to God's purposes, even to the point of possibly making moral mistakes. One's obedience to God must be forward-oriented and zealous and free, and to be a mere moralist or pietist would make such a life impossible.”

Purpose Sin Mistake Moral Impossible Sacrifice Please Mere Oneself Obedience Moralist Zealous Obedience To God

Author:Eric Metaxas

“Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.”

Spiritual Obedience Faithful Advancement

Book:The Spiritual Man

Source: The Spiritual Man

“Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.”

Self Christ Four Changed Obedience Reliance Renunciation Changed Life

Book:Billy Graham in Quotes

Source: Billy Graham in Quotes

“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.”

Made Christian Names Christ Liberty Grace Discipline Messages Advantage Believer Flesh Obedience Belly Apostles Scorned Apostle Paul

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The possession of a true testimony is the most valuable possession that one could have. It gives one knowledge, the hope and assurance that one, through obedience, can be a partaker of all the promised blessings.”

Giving Blessing Possession Valuable Obedience Testimony Assurance Valuable Possessions

Author:Marion G. Romney

“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders . . . . and millions have been killed because of this obedience . . . .”

People World Has Beens Problem Leader Millions Obedience Disobedience Starvation Civil Disobedience

Author:Howard Zinn

“The desire of our hearts, of course, is not only to acquire salvation and immortality but also to attain eternal life with a loving Father in Heaven and our Savior in the celestial kingdom with our families. We can obtain eternal life only through obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel.”

Heart Law Desire Courses Father Heaven Eternal Salvation Kingdoms Obedience Immortality Our Family Acquire Savior Eternal Life Celestial Ordinances Father In Heaven

Author:Quentin L. Cook

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

Men Whole Duty Gods Will Obedience Obedience To God

Author:George Washington

“Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.”

Long Two Character Growth Situation Elements Obedience Range Maturity

Book:Effective Biblical Counseling

Source: Effective Biblical Counseling

“There is no substitute for obedience to the commands and demands of the gospel, of doing what we are supposed to do as disciples of Jesus Christ. We can never truly be happy or have great hope unless we follow Heavenly Father's plan for our happiness.”

Father Jesus Christ Plans Demand Jesus Christ Command Obedience Heavenly Substitutes Disciple Heavenly Father Great Hope

Author:David S. Baxter

“Faithfulness to God requires your obedience, even when it’s difficult.”

Difficult Obedience Faithfulness

Author:Jim George

“O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.”

Firsts Spirit Wind Habit Clean Blow Oil Enthusiasm Dust Obedience First Love

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.”

Men World Strong Weak Faults Refuse Obedience Yield Weak Man

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully. So we compromise. We do some of what we should, thus removing the stigma of disobedience. But we refrain from the most difficult or objectionable or uncomfortable part, and thus try to get the best of both worlds.”

World Giving Should Trying Care Difficult Dare Compromise Obedience Uncomfortable Disobedience Stigma Refrain Best Of Both Worlds

Author:Ebenezer Erskine

“God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience...whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed...It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.”

Answers Duty Blessing Tasks Obedience Enjoyment Right Answers

Author:George Hodges (theologian)

“Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.”

Wells Devotion Obedience Mrs Thatcher

Book:Heseltine

Source: Heseltine

“The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.”

Self Reason Social Church Acceptance Authority Ideals Instruments Punishment Doctrine Obedience Repentance Intolerance Assurance Constraints Elevation Abnegation Obedience To Authority

Book:Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook

Source: Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook

“Obedience is the highest practical courage.”

Highest Practicals Obedience

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847

“A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he thy law. Into thy secret life-will he doth see; Thou fold'st him round in live love perfectly- One two, without beginning, without end; In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.”

Two Ends Law Perfect Secret Company Son Rounds Obedience Love Life Flaws Honour Folds Secret Life Live Love Life Strength

Book:A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul

Source: A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul

“Your words, your schedule, your choices, your obedience, the way you savor your victories and the way you swallow your defeats all help to define your life. It is this definition that your children rely on most as they seek to chart their own future.”

Way Children Helping Choices Victory Our Children Defeat Definitions Obedience Your Children Rely Schedules

Author:Tim Kimmel

“Our love for Christ is more important to Him than all of our service to Him. Strict obedience and services are not enough. Love for Jesus must come first.”

Firsts Important Enough Jesus Christ Obedience Strict Our Love Enough Love

Author:Anne Graham Lotz

“The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith - which He has given - and then push it open and walk through.”

Ifs Given Walks Lord Doors Keys Goodness Surprise Delight Obedience

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.”

Eye Turns Calling Favors Obedience

Book:The New Matthew Henry Commentary: The Classic Work with Updated Language

Source: The New Matthew Henry Commentary: The Classic Work with Updated Language

“There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.”

Country Reason Nations Interest Obedience Opposition Inclination Adverse

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.”

Ifs Force Numbers Military Duty Arms Understood Europe Soldier Command Obedience Formidable Military Force

Book:The Student's Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The Student's Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.”

Years Given Forget Poverty Heard Thousand Hundred Consequence Raised Obedience Frank Confession Crowns Sovereign Vow Chastity

Book:THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.”

Persons Bounds Obedience Conformity

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“How do I know that I am in Christ? Because of my trusting, costly obedience to the Word.”

Knows Christ Obedience

Author:Alistair Begg

“The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.”

Character Suffering Darkness Doubt Certainty Obedience Transformed Tenacious

Book:The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

“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.”

Character Order Moral Discipline Training Obedience Faculty Deliberate Mold Cultivation Moral Character

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.”

Made Desire Choices Offers Difficulty Israel Productivity Obedience Related Enjoyment Opposition Disobedience

Author:Max Anders

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

Spiritual Connected Command Obedience Faithful Obedience To God Spiritual Strength

Author:Max Anders

“Since the success of believers is tied to our knowledge of and obedience to God's Word, the memorizing of portions of the Bible is advisable.”

Believer Obedience Portions Tied Obedience To God Memorizing Advisable

Author:Max Anders

“God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.”

Giving Law Command Obedience Disobedience Anticipate

Author:Max Anders

“Our identity as the people of God is marked primarily by our faithfulness in obedience to Him.”

People Identity Obedience Faithfulness

Author:Max Anders

“We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.”

Perfection This Life Obedience Faithfulness Godliness Sanctification

Author:Steve Camp

“Walking in the light means we pursue obedience and are honest about our remaining darkness.”

Mean Light Darkness Honest Walking Pursue Obedience

Author:Kevin DeYoung

“The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.”

Path Pursuit Obedience Holiness

Author:Steven J Lawson

“Grace does not lead us to overlook obedience. Grace compels and empowers us for obedience.”

Doe Grace Obedience Empowering

Author:Kevin DeYoung

“Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.”

Loses Christianity Obedience Internals Fidelity

Author:Kevin DeYoung

“Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.”

Spiritual Powerful Medicine Cures Obedience

Book:That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary

Source: That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary

“Obedience is a part of greatness.”

Greatness Obedience

Author:Mark E. Petersen

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

Obedience Liberated True Freedom

Author:James E. Faust

“Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience.”

Real Obstacles Obedience

Author:Russell M. Nelson