Obeying God Quotes

To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark, that is faith.

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.

The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter;

the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to this? Let the philosopher no longer disdain from listening to the common laborer; the wise, to the simple; the educated, to the illiterate; a child of a prince, to a peasant.

God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.

Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God

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.

Don't ask God to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

In the new covenant, God doesn't want us to be blessed when we obey the law and cursed when we fail. Doesn't such a system sound awfully similar to the old covenant? Grace is the undeserved, unmerited and unearned favor of God - the moment you try to merit the free favors of God, His grace is nullified.

If you are seeking to obey the Lord, expect opposition.

Expect obstacles. Expect difficulties. But also expect God to see you through

What if you woke up today with only the things you thanked god for yesterday.

Always respond to every impulse to pray.

The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

Nothing happens by accident. God is preparing you for great things.

Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral.

Just as Jesus learned obedience by the things He suffered, we learn obedience by the difficult circumstances we face. When we obey the Word of God that is spoken by the Holy Spirit, we will grow and mature in the times of conflict and suffering. Our knowledge of Scripture is not the key. Obedience is.

When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you too.

God is most beautifully praised when His people hear His Word, love His Word, and obey His Word.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps

David didn't need to know Goliath's strength because he already knew God's.

When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him.

Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.

Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.

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.

God gives every bird a worm, but does not throw it into the nest.

Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.

The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.

Prayer is when you talk to god, meditation is when god talks to you.

Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

"Laws and conditions that tend to debase human personality - a God-given force - be they brought about by the State or other individuals, must be relentlessly opposed in the spirit of defiance shown by St. Peter when he said to the rulers of his day: "Shall we obey God or man?"

God doesn't love you more when you obey, you experience Him more!

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this is Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshiping.

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.

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend.

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.

The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs.

He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.

Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.