#obedience

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#i #obedience #see #success

Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law. ↗

— Gary North

#because #blessings #cannot #come #denied

I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#give #given #god #had #i

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

Obedience is the fruit of faith. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#fruit #obedience

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

There is a heady sense of manhood that comes from advancing from apathy to commitment, from timidity to courage, from passivity to aggressiveness. There is an intoxication that comes from standing up to the police at last. ↗

— David T. Dellinger

#courage #justice #resistance #courage

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#education #evil #good #humane #morality

Love withers under constraints. Its very essence is liberty; it is comparable neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear; it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries are in confidence, equality and unreserve. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#obedience #percy-shelley #equality