... primitive times had required primitive obedience, that later generations evolved to the point where parents offered themselves as sacrifice - as in the dark knights of the ovens which pocked old earth history - and that current generations had to deny any command for sacrifice. Sol had written that whatever God now took in human consciousness - whether as a mere manifestation of the subconscious in all its revanchist needs or as a more conscious attempt at philosophical and ethical evolution - humankind could no longer agree to offer up sacrifice in God's name. Sacrifice and the agreement to sacrifice had written human history in blood.
Dan SimmonsTags: ethics philosophy god obedience
Go, send, or disobey.
John PiperTags: christianity missions obedience gospel great-commission
There is nothing in the world or the Church — except the church's disobedience — to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.
Robert SpeerTags: possibility missions obedience gospel missionary evangelism
Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeless in your city. You can memorize the book of Leviticus. You can pray each morning for four hours like Martin Luther. But if what you do does not flow out of a heart of love - a heart that does those things because it genuinely desires to do them - it is ultimately worthless to God.
J.D. GreearTags: love world god spiritual heart bible devotion gifts value obedience gospel homeless leviticus memorize
It's not the things I don't understand about the Bible that bother me; it's the things I understand with perfect clarity and don't comply with that keep me up at night.
Bill HybelsUnquestioning obedience is hailed as a great virtue only by those leaders whose commands are highly questionable.
George HammondTags: obedience
The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.
Oswald ChambersThere is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace and power of God to stand by us in the little things. The tiniest detail in which we obey has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. When we do our duty, not for duty’s sake, but because we believe that God is engineering our circumstances in that way, then at the very point of our obedience the whole superb grace of God is ours.
Oswald ChambersTags: obedience discipline habit
Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.
Oswald ChambersTags: conscience obedience
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.
Oswald ChambersTags: maturity obedience discipleship
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