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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.

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

John Bevere
Humility, Firsts, Obedience
Twitter post from Sep 25, 2014

The way of obedience is the way of blessing.

T. B. Joshua
Blessing, Way, Obedience

Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.

Hasan of Basra
Islamic, Obedience, Command

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

Saint Augustine
Cost, Obedience, Disobedience

Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you

Sinclair B. Ferguson
May, Obedience, Knows

Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.

John Climacus
Humility, Resurrection, Obedience

Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.

John Bevere
Spiritual, Maturity, Obedience
Twitter post from Aug 17, 2016

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

Joshua Harris
Purity, Obedience, Happens
Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.107, Multnomah

Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

Richard J. Foster
Worship, Obedience, Holy
Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

Nathanael Emmons
Sincere, Obedience, Evidence
"Works: With a Memoir of His Life".

When love firmly settles in the heart, the limbs will only act in obedience to Allah.

Ibn Rajab
Heart, Settling, Obedience

The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.

George Washington
Men, Obedience, Duty

There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience.

Gary Haugen
Moving, Justice, Obedience

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Edwin Louis Cole
Obedience, Results, Unbelief

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
Joy, Obedience, Holy
D. A. Carson (1991). “The Gospel According to John”, p.6, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

John Piper
Treasure, Pleasure, Obedience
John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.250, Multnomah

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

John Stott
Greatness, Kingdoms, Obedience

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

John Calvin
Knowledge Of God, Obedience, Born

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

George Muller
Obedience, Motive, Instance

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

Oswald Chambers
Outcomes, Reason, Obedience
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.51, Discovery House

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

Pope Gregory I
Heart, Virtue, Obedience

He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience.

Paul Washer
Honor, Lord, Obedience

Become goddesses of disobedience.

Naomi Wolf
Funny Graduation, Goddess, Disobedience

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

Randy Alcorn
Obedience, Procrastinating
Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.308, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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
God, Obedience, Leaving Me
"The Marquis of Lossie".

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