“Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.”

Aristotle

Topics: Fear, Love, Obedience

“Do you know how to recognize a true friend? A real friend loves us and protects us. In recognizing a true friend we must look for two important elements in that friendship: A true friend makes it easier for us to live the gospel by being around him. Similarly, a true friend does not make us choose between his way and the Lord’s way.”

Elder Robert D. Hales | Ensign, May 1990, p. 40

Topics: Friendship, Obedience, Peer Pressure

“Before we can write the gospel in our own book of life we must learn the gospel as it is written in the books of scripture. The Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Doctrine and Covenants [and the Pearl of Great Price]—each of them individually and all of them collectively—contain the fulness of the everlasting gospel.”

Bruce R. McConkie | “Holy Writ: Published Anew,” regional representatives seminar, April 2, 1982

Topics: Bible, Obedience, Scripture Study

“What is the cost of discipleship? It is primarily obedience. It is the forsaking of many things. But since everything in life has a price, it is a price worth paying, considering that the great promise of the Savior is for peace in this life and eternal life in the life to come. It is a price we cannot afford not to pay.”

James E. Faust | "The Price of Discipleship", Ensign, April 1999, 2

Topics: Discipleship, Jesus Christ, Obedience

“You cannot today remotely imagine what that decision to be unwaveringly obedient to the Lord will allow you to accomplish in life. Your quiet, uncompromising determination to live a righteous life will couple you to inspiration and power beyond your capacity now to understand. To others, if an honest evaluation of your life reveals a continuing dependency on individuals or things that are not good, please listen. I sincerely want to help you. If you understand and use the principles we now review, they will bring you great reward.”

Richard G. Scott | "Making the Right Decisions"

Topics: Decisions, Obedience

“Search the scriptures—search the revelations which we publish, and ask your Heavenly Father, in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, to manifest the truth unto you, and if you do it with an eye single to His glory nothing doubting, He will answer you by the power of His Holy Spirit. You will then know for yourselves and not for another. You will not then be dependent on man for the knowledge of God; nor will there be any room for speculation. No; for when men receive their instruction from Him that made them, they know how He will save them”

Joseph Smith | Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, sel. Joseph Fielding Smith [1976], 11–12

Topics: Obedience, Scripture Study

How do we prepare for the Second Coming? Well, you just do not worry about it. You just live the kind of life that if the Second Coming were to be tomorrow you would be ready. Nobody knows when it is going to happen. No one knows when the Savior is coming, not even the angels in heaven. Our responsibility is to prepare ourselves, to live worthy of the association of the Savior, to deport ourselves in such a way that we would not be embarrassed if He were to come among us. That is a challenge in this day and age.

Gordon B. Hinckley | Weber State University, Institute Devotional, April 15, 1997

Topics: Obedience, Righteousness, The Second Coming

“A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift. . . . The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called his servants. After they have been tested and tried and are found faithful and true in all things, they are called no longer servants, but friends. His friends are the ones he will take into his kingdom and with whom he will associate in an eternal inheritance.”

Marvin J. Ashton | “What Is a Friend?” Ensign, January 1973, p. 41

Topics: Commandments, Friendship, Nature of God, Obedience, Trials

“The point of the law is love. And while obedience is generally better than disobedience, obedience in itself cannot fulfill the law. Only love can fulfill the law. However, love is a curious end for a law. Normally, the point of a law is to compel obedience, not love. As a result, making love the point of the law introduces a kind of know– a kind of torsion or structural catch 22– into the heart of the law itself because love if compelled, is no longer love. Love that is not freely given is not love. Love, as the end of the law, divides the law against itself. Love hamstrings the law in relation to its own assigned end because the law, working to compel obedience, cannot, in this instance, be fulfilled by way of obedience. It can instead, only be fulfilled by love that the law cannot– and must not– compel. The law must compromise its own integrity in order to achieve its assigned end.”

Adam S. Miller | Future Mormon

Topics: Love, Obedience

“When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy. Those Divine demands which sound to our natural ears most like those of a despot and least like those of a lover in fact marshal us where we should want to go if we knew what we wanted.”

CS Lewis | The Problem of Pain

Topics: Blessings, Obedience

By this principle it shall be known who is for the kingdom of God and who is against it. … By it shall be known whether we are faithful or unfaithful.

Joseph Fielding Smith | Gospel Doctrine, 5th ed. (1939), 225.

Topics: Obedience, Tithing

“…we can choose to see commandments as limitations. We may feel at times that God’s laws restrict our personal freedom, take from us our agency, and limit our growth. But as we seek for greater understanding, as we allow our Father to teach us, we will begin to see that His laws are a manifestation of His love for us and obedience to His laws is an expression of our love for Him.”

Carole M. Stephens | "If Ye Love Me, Keep My Commandments,” 2015 General Conference

Topics: Agency, Commandments, Obedience, Ten Commandments

“Endowed members of the Church wear the garment as a reminder of the sacred covenants they have made with the Lord and also as a protection against temptation and evil. How it is worn is an outward expression of an inward commitment to follow the Savior”

Quorum of the Twelve Apostles | (First Presidency letter, 10 Oct. 1988).

Topics: Covenants, Obedience, Temples

“All the sacrifice that the Lord asks of his people is strict obedience to our own covenants that we have made with our God, and that is to serve him with an undivided heart.”

Brigham Young | Journal of Discourses, 18:246

Topics: Covenants, Obedience, Ordinances

“When God speaks and we obey, we will always be right.”

Thomas S. Monson | The Blessings of Obedience

Topics: Obedience, Personal Revelation

To have faith in Jesus Christ means to have such trust in him that we obey whatever he commands. There is no faith where there is no obedience. Faith comes from hearing the word of God and is a spiritual gift. Faith increases when we not only hear, but act on the word of God as well, in obedience to the truths we have been taught

L. Whitney Clayton | “Help Thou Mine Unbelief,” Ensign, Nov 2001, p. 28

Topics: Faith, Jesus Christ, Obedience, Spiritual Gifts

“Obedience is the first law of heaven. It is an act of faith. You may sometimes be required to do things you do not completely understand. As you obey, you increase in faith, knowledge, wisdom, testimony, protection, and freedom.”

Quorum of the Twelve Apostles | Preach My Gospel

Topics: Faith, Obedience

“In a world where the moral compass of society is faltering, the restored gospel of Jesus Christ never wavers, nor should its stakes and wards, its families, or its individual members. We must not pick and choose which commandments we think are important to keep but acknowledge all of God’s commandments. We must stand firm and steadfast, having perfect confidence in the Lord’s consistency and perfect trust in His promises.”

L. Tom Perry | Obedience to Law Is Liberty

Topics: Commandments, Faith, Obedience

“Parents who fail to teach obedience to their children, if [their] homes do not develop obedience society will demand it and get it. It is therefore better for the home, with its kindliness, sympathy and understanding to train the child in obedience rather than callously to leave him to the brutal and unsympathetic discipline that society will impose if the home has not already fulfilled its obligation.”

David O. McKay | The Responsibility of Parents to Their Children, p. 3.

Topics: Family, Obedience, Parenting

“Someone has recently coined what is called the Gadarene Swine Law, which is, simply put, that just because a group is in formation does not mean that it is going in the right direction.”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell

Topics: Obedience, Peer Pressure

“The happiness of the Latter-day Saints, the peace of the Latter-day Saints, the progress of the Latter-day Saints, the prosperity of the Latter-day Saints, and the eternal salvation and exaltation of this people lie in walking in obedience to the counsels of the priesthood of God.”

Gordon B. Hinckley | “If Ye Be Willing and Obedient”

Topics: Happiness, Obedience, Salvation

“My testimony to you is that miracles do happen! They are happening on the earth today, and they will continue to happen, particularly to those who believe and have great faith. Miracles occur frequently in the lives of humble, fine Latter-day Saints who have the faith to make them possible. My feeling is that the greatest of all miracles is the one that happens in the life of a person who really learns how to pray, who exercises faith to repent, and who lives the gospel in a simple and obedient way.”

Glen L. Rudd | Ensign, January 1989. p. 69

Topics: Faith, Miracles, Obedience, Prayer

“As patterns of obedience develop, the specific blessings associated with obedience are realized and belief emerges. Desire, hope, and belief are forms of faith, but faith as a principle of power comes from a consistent pattern of obedient behavior and attitudes. Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.”

Kevin W. Pearson | Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ

Topics: Blessings, Faith, Obedience

“Sometimes we find that even when we do our best to serve God, we still suffer. The key is to remember that faith and obedience are still the answers – even when things go wrong, perhaps especially when things go wrong.”

David E. Sorensen

Topics: Attitude, Obedience, Trials