You’re wrong Heinrich. While it might seem easy to believe, you and I aren’t actually the same. You’ve been fighting someone else’s war, you’ve been obeying orders, you’ve been carrying out a part in his...

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for...

Whenever Papa said, ‘Jump,’ I was always the first one in the air.

There! Now we’re friends!” declared the minx. “Say you’re sorry about my sister -“”I am desolated!””That’s a good boy!

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, ‘God’s will is my delight.

It is just the old way–that of obedience. If you have ever seen the Lord, if only from afar–if you have any vaguest suspicion that the Jew Jesus, who professed to have come from God,...

Ask Jesus to help you fully understand the joys of obedience. Also, ask Him how you can be a woman fully committed to obedience without slipping into a legalistic approach to life. We must always...

Obedience leads to a powerful, confident life. When you are obedient, and when you allow yourself to be led by God through the unexpected, then you have a confidence based on the fact that you...

Some people are unemployed because they lack the minimum required education. Others are unemployed because they lack the minimum required obedience.

‘Smee, you are a supreme idjit.’ ‘Aye, Cap’n.’

People love to quote that Jesus is love, yet they neglect to mention that He’s also King. If you love the King, you will obey Him.

Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.

The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

All children are born rebels and explorers until they’re taught to sit still and obey.

Encourage obeying “all the way, right away, and in a happy way.

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out...

I am lost and found in You.

If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His...

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge...

Yes, brothers and sisters, the mission of the Church is glorious-to invite all of us to come unto Christ through proclaiming the gospel, perfecting our lives, and redeeming our dead. As we come unto Christ,...

As Ernest Becker observes in The Denial of Death, the very thought of disobeying authority appears to awaken the anxiety connected with the possible loss, during infancy, of parental love, respect or support. The unexamined...

Replace a goal of obedience with one of connection and trust instead. Children are drawn to follow those to whom they are emotionally connected. By parenting not for obedience but for relationship, kids are naturally...

Jesus enters the garden, in preparation, intending to face his fears by facing his God, his Father, His greatest fear is to offend his Father, to disobey his own calling, its integrity, and the word...

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

When your heart is broken, it’s easier to follow rules

And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire not to sin. The closer that one’s spirit is synchronized with the holy knowledge of God, the more...

Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

Today’s obedience earns tomorrow’s rewards!” (My original quote)

Obedience is to a model … what a huge penis is to a male porn star.

To be all we are designed to be, we must consult the great designer — consistently.

You don’t need anybody’s permission to prove yourself, just prove yourself.

No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your...

My friend, when you always say “God is in control”, while you have your feet on the brake pad, you are not going anywhere! Wise up!

Storms are not punishment for lack of obedience; oftentimes they are the result of obedience!

No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus’ sake unless he knows that the Holy Spirit has directly spoken to him; and until He comes, I shall not go.

When he thought about how he had been slighted, condescended to, manipulated and deceived, he became angry. Obedience was a monastic virtue, but outside the cloisters it had its drawbacks, he thought bitterly. The world...

There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guidelines and commandments to help ensure our spiritual safety so that we might successfully navigate this often-treacherous mortal existence...

The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

The man who cannot obey God cannot say that he loves or trusts his Master. If God knows best then how dare we interfere with His will?

to listen, or to give ear to.” It was never intended as a militant word, but one of hearing, of understanding. Of getting it. For a world obsessed with staying in constant communication, we aren’t...

Describing Bonhoeffer’s demeanor on returning to danger in Germany rather than safety in America, with “with a strong and joyful firmness such as only arises out of realized freedom.

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

Your directions, your judgment, your disposition to rebel must be subjected and reduced to ashes. How? In the fire of obedience, for it is there that you will find out if you are truly a...

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to...

Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are...