Faithful Submission Quotes

O you who believe! Obey God, the Prophet, and those who have authority among you.

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.

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

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

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

You pray for things, and you know, we all have our wishlists, but I've learned to pray for whatever's in your will.

We must obey God and not man.

The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.

To the shepherds alone was given all power to teach, to judge, to direct; on the faithful was imposed the duty of following their teaching, of submitting with docility to their judgment, and of allowing themselves to be governed, corrected, and guided by them in the way of salvation. Thus, it is an absolute necessity for the simple faithful to submit in mind and heart to their own pastors, and for the latter to submit with them to the Head and Supreme Pastor.

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

Christ honors our submission even when our only motivation is obedience.

A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.

Do not be more devoted to your own brain than you are to the Bible.

Every person in every generation has a choice: to obey God or to do his own thing.

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

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

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.

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?