Pope Francis Quotes

People tend to say Christians are always judging, but the word of God convicts Christians and urges them to obey God's commands.

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

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

You will never go wrong obeying God.

If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

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.

To do my duty, I must obey God.

I mean to live my life as an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

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

My obedience is not to the law but to the Great Creator.

My word will never be as strong as God's word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.

When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend.

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

The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.

If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.

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.

Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service of God. Blessed indeed are the obedient, for God will never permit them to go astray.

Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.

I don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.

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.

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.