God is worthy of my loving obedience because of who He is, not because of what he does.
Yesterday's partial obedience creates staggering consequences in today's experiences.
But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.
Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.
All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.
For pastors who have a dream and who are walking in obedience but still don't have the resources they need, don't worry. Keep walking in obedience.
Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith.
When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.
There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self became reluctance to assert one's self, became forgiveness, love of one's enemies. Misery became a distinction
Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people!
Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
Obedience is less painful than regret.
In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
Science. . . looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.