Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The most beloved manifestation of obedience to God is trust in Him — Ibn Ata Allah
Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things. — Confucius
The greatest test of life is obedience to God. — Ezra Taft Benson
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. — Mary Mcleod Bethune
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him. — Nathanael Emmons
In all true faith there is complete committal to God. — Lee Roberson
Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man's highest and most rewarding duty. — Paramahansa Yogananda
We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination. — Warren W. Wiersbe
Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord — Alan Redpath
Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. — Eric Liddell
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. — Mitch Albom
Deliverance is always found on 'the mount'; living faith must first prove to God that it has taken His word and promise for victory. — Rees Howells
Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to. — Trent Shelton
And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what. — Pete Wentz
Accept what is. Let go what was. Have faith in what will be.
The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity. — Oren Arnold
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. — Xunzi
Hope looks forward. Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly. — Florence Scovel Shinn
Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.
The universe forgives those who give until their hearts are aching and their spirits weak, and finds a way to renew all strength and cure all ills, in this world or the next, if a soul can just have faith. — Janet Morris
I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity. — Douglas Bader
Blood is thicker than water, but family isn’t just about blood. Family is about faith, and loyalty, and who you love. If you don’t have those things, I don’t care what the blood says. You’re not family. — Mira Grant
The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith. — Confucius
Obedience To God Quotes
When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you
to succeed, He’s calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him;the obedience is up to you. — David Wilkerson
Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience. — Steven Furtick
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
When your vision is clear have faith and trust yourself even when you don't know where your path is taking you.
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
When we demonstrate our faith in God by our obedience, He not only promises to provide for us, He will provide. — Benny Hinn
All you need is faith, trust and a little pixie dust.
If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. — Erwin W. Lutzer
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
Christian Obedience Quotes
Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us. — David Platt
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow. — Martin Luther
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him. — Charles Studd
Faith is realizing you always get what you need.
The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word. — Charles Stanley
Ask yourself whose voice are you listening to? What you see in me is the result of prayer and hard work and obedience to the voice of God. — Folorunsho Alakija
Don’t joke with God. You should not only reverence God, you should fear Him as well. — Enoch Adeboye
Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.
To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I want to tell someone here today, that just as He (God) singled me out to bless in all areas of my life, He will do that same to you: if you listen to His voice. — Folorunsho Alakija
Questioning God is only a waste of time and an insult to the Most High. — Enoch Adeboye
Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one. — Oswald Chambers
God Obedience Quotes
God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience — Charles Stanley
What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it. — John Bunyan
Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience. — George Muller
Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.
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. — Eugene H. Peterson
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God. — Oswald Chambers
The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you. — Bob Jones, Sr.
Sometimes the thing that is holding you back is all in your head.
True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. — Susan B. Anthony
True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things. — John Bevere
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him. — Elisabeth Elliot
Obedience Quotes
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience. — John Locke
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks. — John Vianney
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience. — Dorothea Dix
Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience. — Benedict of Nursia
The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all. — Benedict of Nursia
It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act. — Stanley Milgram
From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders. — Adolf Eichmann
Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience - this was the glue that held us together. — Joseph Bonanno
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. — Howard Zinn
Obedient Quotes
It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974) — Stanley Milgram
A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority. — Stanley Milgram
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager. — John Taylor Gatto
O Allah,
You know that the only thing I want in this life
Is to be obedient to Your command.
Even the living sight of my eyes
Is service at your court — Rabia Basri
Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day. — Ray Lewis
Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world. — Swami Vivekananda
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy. — Gary Haugen
Punishment only gets short term obedience. Praise gets long term loyalty. — Alex Hormozi
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. — Alexander Berkman
There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust. — Klaus Balkenhol
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience. — Anthony Eden
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism. — Angelina Grimke
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other. — William Penn
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. — Carl Sagan
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see. — Boyd K. Packer
Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged. — Charles Kimball
Trust And Faith Quotes
I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it. — Marcus Garvey
If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go. — Gabrielle Roth
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God. — Charles Stanley
Faith talks in the language of God. Doubt talks in the language of man. — E. W. Kenyon
Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives! — Yasmin Mogahed
If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word. — Charles Spurgeon
Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention. — Ernest Holmes
Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater. — Matt Chandler
To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God. — William Tyndale
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God. — Rick Warren
We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. — Alfred Edersheim
To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are spiritually regenerate is to overthrow the gospel and the faith of the universal church in all ages. — John Owen
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin! — John Milton
I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, joined by the bond of the covenant. — Roger Sherman
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied. — Charles Hodge
Obedience is our responsibility. The outcome is God's responsibility. As we learn to trust him with our future, trust him with those we love, trust him as our provider, and trust his sovereign plan, that gives us the foundation to step out in faith. We can trust that he'll always be faithful. — Craig Groeschel
How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience. — Bill Hybels
When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons. — Brennan Manning
It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue. — Wilhelm Keitel
Faith is nothing but obedience and piety. — Baruch Spinoza
Some of the sweetest spirits are housed in frail frames. Great spiritual strength is often developed by those with physical challenges precisely because they are challenged. Such individuals are entitled to all the blessings that God has in store for His faithful and obedient children. — Russell M. Nelson
Lord, make me less like Jonah and more like Jesus. Save me from being the kind of person who cares more about my comfort, my reputation, and my success than I do about the people You are calling me to serve. Help me to keep all of my dreams on Your altar and be ready at all times to respond with faith and obedience to Your call. — Colin S. Smith
Each temple building is an inspiration, magnificent and beautiful in every way, but the temple building alone does not bless. The endowed blessings and divine functions—come through obedience and faithfulness to priesthood authority and covenants made. — James E. Faust
What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow. — Martin Luther
Scripture teaches us that we should trust God and not lean on our own wisdom or understanding. To do this, we have to strive to know God intimately, walking by faith and not by sight. This may not be easy at first, but it starts with simple obedience. — Craig Groeschel
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. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion. — J. I. Packer
Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people. — J. C. Ryle
Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life. — Billy Graham
We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not our believing it, is the matter of our justification before God. — John Flavel
See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace. — John Owen
The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws. — Adam Clarke
All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things. — John Owen
Faith that trusts on Jesus alone for salvation, and not on your respectable life, and the obedience that follows Him, are the indispensable steps to salvation. You admit that you have not taken these decisive steps. Then, however near you are, you are not in Christ. — Theodore L. Cuyler
We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. If we knew why the Lord sent us this or that trial, it would thereby cease to be a trial either of faith or of patience. — Alfred Edersheim
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men. — Jonathan Edwards
As a human being, the way Jesus responded to God in faithful obedience and gave his life in service to other humans-is the pattern for all authentic humanity renewed by the Spirit of God. — Luke Timothy Johnson
There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which will remain undone and incomplete until by faith and obedience you step into the will of God. — Alan Redpath
With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain. — Henry B. Eyring
The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience. — Mark Galli
To do well does not mean everything will always turn out well. The key is to remember that faith and obedience are still the answers, even when things go wrong, perhaps especially when things go wrong. — David E. Sorensen
The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility... Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man. It risks being vain and sterile. — Pope Paul VI
I do know this... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ. — Joel Osteen
Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier. — Lin Yutang
Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth. — Henry B. Eyring
Enduring faith is not blind or obedient, it is keenly attentive and responsible; it is not fed by awe, but by quickening interest; prosperity is not the disappearance of problems, but the continual engagement with the process of finding solutions. Wisdom is not given from on high, but must be painstakingly unraveled from the knots in his own guts. — Deane Juhan
We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works. — John Owen
Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith. — Kevin W. Pearson
Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people. — Keith B. McMullin
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