Marcus Aurelius Quotes

What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?

... since God commanded me to go, I must do it.

Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

With all my heart, I plead with the Latter-day Saints to live honestly with the Lord in the payment of tithes and offerings. I plead with youth to establish this habit while you are still young and to resolve to continue with it all the days of your lives.

I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.

Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.

Obey God, obey his Prophet, and obey those in authority over you.

Certainly there is no contending against the will of God, but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining it, and applying it, to particular cases.

Now God has chosen me to be king over the entire world. What I do, I must do, because God has ordained me. Dear brothers and sisters, let us now give thanks to God.

The Church not only prescribes for her children to obey state power regardless of the convictions and faith of its bearers, but also prays for it.

I have known many Christians —– Poles, Frenchman, Spaniards —– who were strict Stalinists in the field of politics but who retained certain inner reservations, believing God would make corrections once the bloody sentences of the all-mighties of History were carried out. They pushed their reasoning rather far. They argue that history develops according to immutable laws that exist by the will of God; one of these laws is the class struggle; the twentieth century marks the victory of the proletariat, which is led in its struggle by the Communist Party; Stalin, the leader of the Communist Party, fulfills the law of history or in other words acts by the will of God, therefore one must obey him. Mankind can be renewed only on the Russian pattern; that is why no Christian can oppose the one —– cruel, it is true —– idea which will create a new kind of man over the entire planet. Such reasoning is often used by clerics who are party tools.

No matter who we are, God does not adapt to please us; we always have to adapt to him.

Loyalty is the first law of God.

Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.

When God commands, do it!

If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

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

God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.

Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.

My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

Obedience decks the Christian most.

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.