Quotes About Living It Out

"Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love."  ~ Aristotle

"One act of obedience is better than one-hundred sermons."  ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The golden rule for understanding in spiritual matters is not intellect, but obedience."  ~ Oswald Chambers

"The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others.  Every kind of character flaw comes from this natural impulse to be our own savior through our own performance and achievement.  On the one hand, proud and disdainful personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are succeeding.  But on the other hand, discouraged and self loathing personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are failing."  ~ Tim Keller

"I was not born to be free.  I was born to adore and to obey."  ~ C.S. Lewis

"Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call."  ~ Henry P. Liddon

"You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it."  ~ Martin Luther

"When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do."  ~ Henrietta Mears

"If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth's grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lost, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God's will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham's bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home."  ~ John Newton

"Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him."  ~ Charles F. Stanley

"It is much safer to obey than to govern."  ~ Thomas a Kempis