#obedience

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#bottom line #christian #christian life #even #life

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. ↗

— John Strachan

#awakened #called #charm #christian #constitute

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#am #certain #child #deal #enter

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#apostles #could #evils #existing #imitate

Obedience is the fruit of faith. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#fruit #obedience

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) ↗

— Eve Ensler

#being-alive #being-different #difference #intensity #love

Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#anti-war #civil-disobedience #non-violence #social-justice #age

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread? ↗

— Ron Sider

#christianity #compassion #fashion #hunger #luxury

Whenever, wherever, however You want me, I'll go. And I'll begin this very minute. Lord, as I stand up from this place, and as I take my first step forward, will You consider this is a step toward complete obedience to You? I'll call it the step of yes. ↗

— Brother Andrew

#obedience-christianity #service #faith

Lord, if you show me the way, I will follow You. ↗

— Brother Andrew

#obedience #faith