"See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace." ~John Owen
"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honour, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?" ~ David Livingstone
"Look at it this way. If you choose which commands you will obey and which you don't obey, you aren't obeying at all. You are doing all the time what you decided to do." ~Elizabeth Rice Handord
"We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds, that He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Chlurch." ~Alan Redpath
"Anyone who might feel reluctant to surrender his will to the will of another should remember Jesus' words, 'Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.' We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The sinner prides himself on his independence, completely overlooking the fact that he is the weak slave of the sins that rule his members. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light." ~A.W. Tozer
"God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him." ~Jim Elliot
"The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!" ~A.W. Tozer
"God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best. You will not obey Him, if you do not believe Him and trust Him. You cannot believe Him if you do not love Him. You cannot love Him unless you know Him." ~Henry Blackaby
"If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will." ~Hannah Whitall Smith
"Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride. Our work is jubilant, carefree, merry. Utter abandonment to God is done freely and with celebration. And so I urge you to enjoy this ministry of self-surrender. Don't push too hard. Hold this work lightly, joyfully. The saints throughout the ages have witnessed to this reality... You know, of course, society. No, this is a deep, resonant joy that has been shaped and tempered by the fires of suffering and sorrow; joy through the cross, joy because of the cross." ~Richard J. Foster
"People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1: they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own." ~A.W. Tozer
"If you do not plan to live the Chrilstian life totall committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't begin, for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of citizenship, and change of governments, a change of allegiance. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; it is not for you." ~Kay Arthur
"Obedience deepens our intimacy with Jesus. If we want to know the Father, we must not only love Him, but also obey Him. Scripture is clear that it is important to know the Father through His Word, and if we want to be a part of what the Father is doing and to be able to see where He is moving then it is clear that we must obey His commands. It is important to be biblically literate, but we must also be biblically obedient!" ~John Wimber
"Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship." ~Richard J. Foster
"When a person's faith seems to collapse without warning, one can be sure it has been the result of inner conflicts - the termites of disobedience." ~Quentin J. Everest
"Satan's cause is never more in danger than when a human being no longer desiring, but still intending to do God's will, looks around upon a world from which every trace of God seems to have vanished and asks why he has been forsaken, yet still obeys." ~C.S. Lewis
"There is nothing more appalling than the wholesale way in which unthinking people plead to the Almighty the richest and most spiritual of His promises, and claim their immediate fufillment, without themselves fulfilling one of the conditions either on which they are promised or can possibly be given." ~Henry Drummond
"There can be no true obedience from the heart unless there is the freedom to obey." ~Rick Joyner
