You can only learn what obedience is by obeying.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
Obedience
One act of obedience – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
Walking with Jesus – AA Allen
If you’re walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go.
– AA Allen –
God enables us to obey – Oswald Chambers
If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account.
– Oswald Chambers –
Proof you are crucified with Christ – Oswald Chambers
The proof that your old life is dead, having been “crucified with Christ,” is the amazing ease with which the life of God in you now enables you to obey the voice of Jesus Christ.
– Oswald Chambers –
The Command to be Obeyed – Hudson Taylor
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
– Hudson Taylor –
Holiness is persevering obedience – Charles Spurgeon
Holiness is persevering obedience.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Well, she’s willing – Gladys Aylward
I wasn’t God’s first choice for what I’ve done in China…I don’t know who it was…it must have been a man…a well-educated man. I don’t know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn’t willing…and God looked down…and saw Gladys Aylward…and God said, “Well, she’s willing.”
– Gladys Aylward –
The fruit of God’s love – John Owen
Faith, love, trust, joy and obedience are the saints’ responses to the Father’s loving acts shown to them.
– John Owen –