Obedience

“He who loves money is not weary of telling it: and he who loves God is not weary of serving him.”

“Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.”

“Unless we deny our own will, we shall never do God's will.”

“Who can have a better right to us than he that gives us our breath?”

“Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.”

“Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ.”

“God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.”

“Be not guided by the will-o'-the-wisp of policy, but by the pole-star of divine authority.”

“Love should give wings to the feet of service, and strength to the arms of labour.”

“Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.”

“One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories.”

“Let us take all our perplexities to Him, and say, 'Lord, what will you have me to do?”

“We are never so free as when we own our sacred serfdom.”

“To injure our fellow men is sin, mainly because in so doing we violate the law of God.”

“If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation?”

“He who obeys sincerely endeavors to obey thoroughly.”

“Precepts may instruct, but examples persuade.”

“In active obedience, we worship God by doing what pleases God; but by passive obedience, we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.”

“It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does.”

“The Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it.”

“This is how you honour God, that you can turn this way or that way, as God calls you to it.”

“Sacrifice without obedience is sacrilege.”

“The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.”

“It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees.”

“The word of God must be our rule and square whereby we are to frame and fashion all our actions.”

“He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every lust, every omission of duty, is burdensome to God, though only one be burdensome to him.”

“Without the diligent use of the grace of obedience, we shall never enjoy the graces of joy, peace and assurance.”

“See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.”

“We are only servants and disciples of Christ when we do what is commanded us, and because it is commanded us.”

“Nothing shall be lost which is done for God or in obedience to Him.”

“The Lord hath given you much, and therefore He will require much of you again.”

“The creatures suffer for us; why should not we be willing to suffer to be serviceable to God?”

“It is a greater sign of servitude to do what one doth by the direction of another, than to be under authority that shall punish him if he do amiss.”

“A Christian makes over his will to God, and in making over his will to God, he has no other will but God's.”

“The same Spirit that convinces us of the necessity of his righteousness to cover us convinces us also of the necessity of his government to rule us.”

“Our hearts stand ready pressed to subject themselves to whatever God shall declare to be his will.”

“I have often thought, and sometimes said, if God will be pleased with any way, surely he will be pleased with his own.”

“Let the chief of our obedience be placed in our souls and in soul-worship.”

“The apostle simply, without any limitation, pronounceth, That circumcision profiteth nothing, if a man be a breaker of the law.”

“We do maintain that believers, according to their means, must support believers who are subject to poverty.”

“How strong then are his obligations to walk worthy of God, who has called him to his kingdom and glory!”

“The honor of God must be the principal end of every good work.”

“Faith will do all that Christ commands, depending upon him for strength; and who so depends upon Christ for strength in one duty, will depend upon him for strength in another.”

“If all obedience in doing and suffering, that is pleasing, comes from faith and assurance, then what shall we think of such works as proceed not from it?”

“It is a delight and rejoicing to God to see his children just and righteous in all their dealings.”

“There is only so much of worth in what we do for God—as there is of heart in it.”

“We are bound to love one another, and to show all the offices of love.”

“Into these two is the whole will of God divided; it consists either in things to be believed by us, or in things to be done by us.”

“The perfection of both is, to fear and love the Lord with all the heart and all the soul, and to walk in all his ways.”

“It is not enough to aim at God thus far in thy service, as much as thou wouldst aim at men.”

“The only way I can see another person’s faith is by observing his works.”

“Christ's government brings the very thoughts and desires, which are the most immediate and free issue of the soul, into obedience.”

“The ten commandments are like a ten-stringed instrument, and we must touch every string, obey every commandment, or we cannot make sweet melody in religion.”

“And, being a sinner, he cannot yield perfect, actual obedience to God's law.”

“Neither must we set light by the censures or admonitions of the lawful pastors of the church: when they are agreeable to the word and judgment of God, they are very dreadful.”

“Is it your grief—that you fall short in your obedience unto Christ?”

“And as Christ’s promise is to be with us to the end of the world, so this must be our course to the end of the world.”

“Who, almost, hath prepared his heart to walk with God as he ought? who considers whether his walking be such as it ought to be?”

“In the first place, the Sabbath day is blessed by being set apart as a day for God's service.”

“In some cases a higher loyalty May impose on us the duty of protesting and exposing wrongdoing on the part of someone in authority over us.”

“It is prescribed to servants to please their masters well in all things, "not answering again," for that is displeasing: better say nothing than say that which is provoking.”

“There is something due on a penny as well as on a pound, therefore we must be faithful in the least truth, when the season calls for it.”

“A Christian ’ s grateful endeavor should be to get his will to submit to God .”

“Hence, as I said, it is told us, not only that he is the Son of God's love, but that he increased in favour with God; that is, by a going on in doing, by a continuing to do that always that pleased the God of heaven.”

“Christ did not set up a doctrinal principle for government and policy in the speculation, but such an one as is practical.”

“Again, the end of a man’s life, and of all his actions, is to serve God, in serving of man, and by serving of man, to serve God.”

“So God, He creates man, not that he should do his own will, but God’s will.”

“If we do anything to God, and do it not in love, he regards it not.”

“Take heed of being ashamed of Jesus Christ in any service of his; his service in the meanest works of it, is a greater honour to you, then you can be to it.”

“Necessity takes away the honour of an action; to do a thing when we must needs, when we are forced to it whether we will or no, though the thing be good we do, yet the honour of it is lost in great part.”

“I gladly give myself, my all, my every word, my every work, to my Redeemer's cause.”

“Therefore having faithfully done our duty, we must leave the matter of our reputation to God, who, if our ways please him, can make our enemies to be at peace with us, or be harmless to us as if they were no enemies.”

“In the state of innocence, God suited the power of his creature to the law which he intended to give him; and made his obligation to duty commensurate with his ability to perform it. 4.”

“He did the same when He suffered: “Not my will, but thine be done,” which was His motto from first to last.”

“We are resolved, that what ever the Lord shall teach us to be his ways, we will submit unto it.”

“I gave Christ's poor good words; I did bid them be warmed—but I should have clothed and fed them.”

“And I would have us labour to have in great readiness all things which Christ requires of us.”

“No, they must make the Word their rule for all they do; they must go to the Holy Bible, and there inquire what may or may not be done; for they tremble at the Word.”

“The Righteousness needed by us, and presented to us, is His obedience.”

“We must all appear before his judgment-seat, who will require of us whether we have done and observed what he hath commanded us or no.”

“Reveal your affection unto Him in your imitation of Him, in writing after His copy, in treading in His steps, in walking as Christ Himself walked when He was here upon the earth.”

“He who does most work here—shall have most reward hereafter.”

“Well, to conclude this point, in the making of the covenant there must be a mutual consent of the parties on both sides; and besides the promise on God’s part, there must be also a restipulation on man’s part.”

“The covenant of works had no provision for vicarious obedience, obedience to God’s law by one person in behalf of another.”

“As the Man Christs perfect conformity to the Law of God, so as man he was oblidged to do and suffer all that he did and suffered, even to lay down his life for man.”

“Great peace have all they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them.” Love makes an equable and constant motion, it moves swiftly and sweetly.”

“Remember, power is only given us to do good with it; and to do good is some resemblance of Christ.”

“We justify our profession when we do somewhat more than nature, or when we do common ordinary things in a spiritual holy manner.”

“To do God's will sincerely lies in two things, first, to do God's will out of a pure respect to his command.”

“We show our love in return by obeying the stipulations or laws of his covenant.”

“Our rule is, What we would that men should do to us when we offend them, the same we should do to them when they offend us; for this is the law and the prophets.”

“You have been seeking the assurance of your salvation, but not in the path that has been most honoring to the Divine commands as a child of God.”

“I am a stranger in the earth”—what then?—“then, Lord, let me have the knowledge of your commandments, and it is sufficient.”

“Last of all, all thy good actions must be out of faith, which engrafts a man into Christ.”

“And according to the several conditions of particular callings must every man in his place do the best good he can.”

“We are always called to seek more and more to bring our faith and practice into conformity to the Word of God.”

“The words here used, “in earth as it,” etc., do not signify an equality (as though our obedience could in this life be in the same degree of perfection with angels), but a similitude, standing in the like manner of obedience.”

“It is true that the work of the New Jerusalem will be brought to pass by the almighty power of Jesus Christ, yet He requires that H is saints should put their hands to the work.”

“The apostle Paul certainly knew the mind of God and the tenour of the gospel, and yet you shall find his chosen arguments to excite us to serve God are many times drawn from the fear of his judgments.”

“As has been well remarked by a profound theologian, "In his sufferings he obeyed, and in his obedience he suffered." His mediatorial work, like his robe, cannot be divided into separate parts.”

“Because of these, God’s wrath comes on the disobedient." These are such as do not yield obedience unto the law of God—but live in and allow themselves the practice of known sins, and the neglect of known duties.”

“You know men will condemn you, if you be true to God: if, therefore, you must needs have the favour of men, you must take it alone without God's favour.”