Quotes about Obedience

you wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the

To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!

If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.

Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you.

Eseldorf was a paradise for us boys. We were not overmuch pestered with schooling. Mainly we were trained to be good Christians; to revere the Virgin, the Church, and the saints above everything. Beyond these matters we were not required to know much; and, in fact, not allowed to. Knowledge was not good for the common people, and could make them discontented with the lot which God had appointed for them, and God would not endure discontentment with His plans.

To this end it furnishes them an abundance of Catholic priests to teach them to be docile and obedient, and to be diligent in acquiring ignorance about things here below, and knowledge about the kingdom of heaven

The end of life is not to be happy nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

He demanded of all people the one thing he had never granted anybody: obedience.

The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!

Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do what the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. So go crazy with the rules?the time your child spends trying to figure them out is time he won't be stapling firecrackers to the neighbor's dog.