Lorenzo Snow Quotes

To those of you who pay your tithing, I commend you. To those of you who presently are not obeying the law of tithing, I invite you to consider your ways and repent. I testify that by your obedience to this law of the Lord, the windows of heaven will be opened to you. Please do not procrastinate the day of your repentance.

This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.

Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.

When God commands, do it!

Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.

The Bible says that love is a responsibility. We are commanded to love. God doesn't ask us if we feel like it, He tells us in His Word that it is our responsibility to love.

The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

I made this my rule: When the Lord commands, do it.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

The great commandment of life is to love the Lord.

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

To do my duty, I must obey God.

Poverty was nowhere more endurable than in a country where duty towards one's neighbor, that is, one's fellow-citizen, was practiced with the utmost piety, as a means of gaining the favor of God the King.

Faith is not to be kept with him who keeps not faith with God

Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body. As the church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything.

Sometimes this going out in obedience to God's command is more dramatic than at other times... sometimes more spectacular... sometimes more brave... but always it is a venture into the unknown.

Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under 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.

I want you to hear from God. God already spoke to me what I'm going to write out. You're going to write your checks to Paula White Ministries. If God tells you to give $12.99, do it. Whatever the Holy Spirit speaks to you. If you need to give by credit card, do so.

Loyalty is the first law of God.

Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.

Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!

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