Obedience Quotes
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Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.
John Ruskin
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Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.
Boyd K. Packer
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I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can’t, and you hate yourself because you can’t, and all the time love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some hard thing that you do. And this in a way is easier because with God’s help you can command your will when you can’t command your feelings. With us, feelings seem to be important, but He doesn’t appear to agree with us.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel. There is an obedience that comes from a knowledge of the truth that transcends any external form of control. We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
Boyd K. Packer
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That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.
Andrew van der Bijl
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If obedience is the chief thing good stood upon, why are not other laws and statutes urged as strictly as those which concern ceremonies?
George Gillespie
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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
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God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand.
Erwin McManus
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What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.
John Stuart Mill
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To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.
Randy Alcorn
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Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.
Eric Liddell
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When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
Bob Taft
