Obedience Quotes
Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.
Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa'di
Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
Baruch Spinoza
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
John Calvin
The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.
David Jeremiah
Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.
Cennino Cennini
Those who have had the most impact and influence throughout history and certainly the people who've had the most impact and influence on me personally have been basically entirely unaware of any such influence and made their chief concern their personal devotion and obedience, and the pleasure of God in the hidden things of their lives.
Brooke Fraser
Hillsong Worship
God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.
John Ruskin
Obedience sets a woman apart, fills her with life, permits her to be God-blessed.
Elaine A. Cannon
Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.
L. Tom Perry
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
William Shakespeare
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
Mahatma Gandhi
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.
Soren Kierkegaard
Obedience . . . allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord.
Athos M. Amorim
Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.
Andrew Bernstein
Worship is an act of obedience of the heart. It is a response that requires the very core of who you are, to love the Lord for who He is, not just for what He does.
Darlene Zschech
Every time you open up your heart in obedience to God and worship Him with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul, our beautiful Lord responds with His magnificent presence.
Darlene Zschech
When obedience is so impious, Revolt is a necessity.
Pierre Corneille
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
Anne Sullivan Macy
