We are apt to imagine that if Jesus Christ constrains us and we obey Him, He will lead us to great success; but He does not. If our Lord has ever constrained you, and you...

[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.

The best-trained part of us, though, is the mouth, it �is always obediently and devoutly shut. And it’s only too true: an open mouth is a yawning fact, the fact that its owner is dwelling...

Lord, if you show me the way, I will follow You.

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn’t know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you.”He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt,...

Obedience to truth known, is the king’s highway to that which is still beyond us

Go, send, or disobey.

Legalism is when we try to obtain the result of obedience by our own means and strength. It is self-righteousness, as opposed to God’s righteousness covering us, and the two are as different as spirit...

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God’s grace and is...

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own...

When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you’re right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked...

Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it’s always because they know why.

Choices will continually be necessary and — let us not forget — possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong...

When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More often it refers to a religion accepted by the large majority, which assures...

Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of...

It has been reliably established that from 1933 to 1945 millions of innocent people were systematically slaughtered on command. Gas chamberswere built, death camps were guarded, daily quotas of corpses were produced with the same...

It’s only when we understand [Jesus’] presence in the church as being the fulfillment of God’s promise in Zephaniah 3:17 to “quiet you with his love” and “rejoice over you with singing” that a crucial...

We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.

The “hillbilly” girls were generating more enriched Tubealloy per run than the PhDs had…The District Engineer understood perfectly. Those girls…had been trained like soldiers. Do what you’re told. Don’t ask why.

Three rules to obey!1. Don’t be over-impressed by your past glories! 2. Don’t be scared by your future stories!3. Be hopeful to get out of today’s miseries!

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment…. The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and...

The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.

the wonder of empty hands” (Bernanos), the great potential of the person on the street, whose radical dependence on God is no different from anyone else’s. He has no talent but that of his own...

God calls his creatures to live under authority. He is our authority and has vested authority in people within the institutions he has established (home, church, state, and business). You must not be embarrassed to...

Whatsoever the Lord Jesus commands you, do it, irrespective of consequences. Many who greatly delight to expatiate on the “Whosoever” of John 3:16, are not so much concerned about the “Whatsoever” of John 2:5, “Whatsoever...

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

when you obey the rules, the rules obey you

The beauty of obedience is that what God expects you to do, He also enables you to do.

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to our Heavenly Father in prayer. If we will be obedient and if we are diligent,...

In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-heeled homes up until at least the...

It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them...

There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its long search for God. He thought of the many centuries in which his...

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...

The longing of my soul is to know and obey the Supreme-being,God.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling…and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and...

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

Every now and then I like to do as I’m told, just to confuse people.