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God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience
Charles Stanley
God oversees the aftermath of our compliance, WE bear the brunt of our rebellion.
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What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.
John Bunyan
No matter the opposition, the Almighty's decree is final.
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Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.
George Muller
Gaining familiarity with God is achievable if we diligently probe His Sacred Writings & act upon what we uncover.
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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.
Eric Liddell
Submission to the Lord's wishes is the cornerstone of divine wisdom and discernment. It is not readiness to comprehend, but readiness to EXECUTE (fulfill) the Lord's desires that brings assurance.
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When we demonstrate our faith in God by our obedience, He not only promises to provide for us, He will provide.
Benny Hinn
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But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.
Howard Zinn
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Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience.
Amy Carmichael
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It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.
Gregory of Nazianzus
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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 is up to.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.
Eric Liddell
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The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.
Howard Zinn
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Extraordinary moves of God begin with ordinary acts of obedience.
Steven Furtick
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Obedience is your responsibility, the outcome is God's!
Steven Furtick
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True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Obedience to the Lord is not only measured by how much we do for our Savior, but by how we obey Him when nobody is looking.
John Wimber
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True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.
John Bevere
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The most beloved manifestation of obedience to God is trust in Him
Ibn Ata Allah
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A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.
Hasan of Basra
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The way of obedience is the way of blessing.
T. B. Joshua
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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.
Thomas Aquinas
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Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.
John Bevere
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
Saint Augustine
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Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.
Joshua Harris
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Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.
John Climacus
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There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience.
Gary Haugen
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Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.
Nathanael Emmons
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When love firmly settles in the heart, the limbs will only act in obedience to Allah.
Ibn Rajab
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If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
D. A. Carson
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Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
Edwin Louis Cole
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Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.
John Piper
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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
John Calvin
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Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.
George Muller
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To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.
Randy Alcorn
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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
Oswald Chambers
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Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.
Pope Gregory I
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He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience.
Paul Washer
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I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.
George MacDonald
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Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.
John Stott
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True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.
Dorothy Day
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God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand.
Erwin McManus
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After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
James Prescott Joule
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Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.
Ayn Rand