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OBEDIENCE

 

Do all through love, nothing through constraint; Love obedience more than you fear disobedience.  (Letter to Madame de Chantal)

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In obedience all is secure; out of it all is to be suspected. (Treatise on the Love of God, Book 8, Chapter 13)

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Some find that there is disobedience in the thing which they desire, and wish that it was not there; others seek for it, and only desire the thing because it is forbidden. (Spiritual Conferences, 1)

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To find the Saviour outside obedience is to lose Him altogether. (Letters to Persons in Religion, VI, 22)

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When God puts inspirations into a heart, the first He gives is obedience. (Treatise on the Love of God, Book 8, Chapter 13)

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You do not receive true remedies by your choice nor through sensible feeling, but through obedience and by reason. (Letters to Persons in Religion, IV, 33)

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What greater austerity can there be than to keep one's will in subjection and continual obedience? (Letters to Persons in Religion, III, 8)

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The devil does not fear austerity but holy obedience. (Letters to Persons in Religion, III, 8)

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If, before my body bows to my superior, I have not made an act of inward rever­ence by humbly willing to submit to him, at least let me take care that this willing reverence accompany the outward gesture. (Spiritual Conferences, 1)

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The obedience which you pay to the doctor when ill is extremely agreeable to God. (Letters to Persons in Religion, I, 9)

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In proportion to our affection and es­teem for the maker of the law, is the exactness of our observance of it. (Spiritual Conferences, 13)

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Do not look into the face of one who governs you, but into the face of God who has so ordained it. (Letters to Persons in Religion, V, 12)

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Rest from obedience, and your repose is more meritorious and more pleasing to God than voluntary labor. (Spiritual Conferences, 11)

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If the spiritual attraction comes from God, it will without doubt lead one to obedience. (Spiritual Conferences, 20)

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Blessed are the obedient, for God will never suffer them to go astray. (Introduction to the Devout Life, Part III, Chapter 11)

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