Quotes about Command

What openings of providence do we wait for? We can neither expect to be transported into the heathen world without ordinary means, nor to be endowed with the gift of tongues, &c. when we arrive there. These would not be providential interpositions, but miraculous ones. Where a command exists nothing can be necessary to render it binding but a removal of those obstacles which render obedience impossible, and these are removed already.

Those who can command themselves command others.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do.

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

You will never go wrong obeying God.

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.

God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges

It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.