Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

God can do all sorts of things, God does not need me! But He commands me to be like His Son, and that is all.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

We must obey God and not man.

Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.

You will never go wrong obeying God.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

To do my duty, I must obey God.

This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.

Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.

When God commands, do it!

You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.

I am a servant, taking orders and receiving orders. What God tells me, I say, and what He shows me, I see. His will must always supersede.

Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

If you tell God 'no' because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say 'yes' to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience.

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

Our food and our rest, our trades and our labors, are to be attended to, and all the offices of humanity performed in obedience to the will of God, for the glory of Christ.

The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

Give what You command and command what You will.

Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.