Author Topic: Catholic Quotes on Obedience (Read 579097 times)

Gray2023 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 10, 2025, 01:24:43 PM »

Many Religious and others have been Saints without meditation, but without obedience no one. ----St. Francis de Sales

Gray2023 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 11, 2025, 10:58:46 AM »

Obedience is the summary of perfection and of the whole spiritual life, and the securest, shortest, least laborious and least dangerous way of becoming enriched with all virtues, and arriving at the goal of our desires----eternal life. ----Alvarez

Gray2023 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 12, 2025, 04:10:54 PM »

The devil, seeing that there is no shorter road to the summit of perfection than that of obedience, artfully insinuates many repugnances and difficulties under color of good, to prevent us from following it. ----St. Teresa

Gray2023 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 13, 2025, 08:14:21 PM »

The more we see of failure in obedience, the stronger should be our suspicion of temptation and illusion. For when God sends His inspirations to a heart, the first grace He sheds upon it is that of obedience. ----St. Teresa

Gray2023 · « **Reply #19 on:** October 17, 2025, 06:48:18 PM »

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, or desire one employment more than another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him. ----St. Bernard

Gray2023 · « **Reply #20 on:** October 18, 2025, 02:30:24 PM »

The chief merit of obedience consists not in following the will of a mild, amiable Superior who asks rather than commands, but in remaining patiently under the yoke of one who is imperious, rigorous, harsh, ill-humored, and never satisfied. This is a pure fountain of water gushing from the throat of a bronze lion. ----St. Francis de Sales

Gray2023 · « **Reply #21 on:** October 22, 2025, 05:46:13 PM »

When the Superior orders anything, consider that it is not he that speaks, but God, so that the Superior is but a trumpet through which the voice of God sounds. And this is the true key to obedience, and the reason why the perfect obey in everything so promptly, and make no difference between one Superior and another, and submit to the lowest in authority as well as to the highest, and to the imperfect as well as to the perfect; for they regard not the persons nor the qualities of Superiors, but God alone, who is always the same, of equal merit, and of equal authority. ----St. Alphonsus Rodriguez

Gray2023 · « **Reply #22 on:** October 23, 2025, 08:11:34 PM »

Do you know how it happens that many who have lived long in religion, and practiced daily so many acts of obedience, have by no means succeeded in acquiring a habit of this virtue? Because, not every time they obey, do they do it because such is the will of God [which is the formal reason of obedience]; but they obey, now for one cause, now for another, so that their actions, being destitute of mutual similarity, cannot unite to form a habit of this virtue. ----St. Alphonsus Rodriguez

Gray2023 · « **Reply #23 on:** October 27, 2025, 08:25:08 AM »

Whoever wishes to be a good Religious must make himself like the ass of the monastery. This animal does not choose what burden he is to bear, nor go by the road he prefers, nor rest when he likes, nor do what he wishes; but accommodates himself to all that is chosen for him. He walks, he stops, he turns, he goes back, he suffers and labors day and night, in all kinds of weather, and bears whatever burden is put upon him without saying, "Why?" or "What for?" "It is too much;" "It is too little;" or the like. ----Abbot Nesterone

Gray2023 · « **Reply #24 on:** October 28, 2025, 09:14:10 PM »

Whoever lives under obedience ought to allow himself to be ruled by Providence, through his Superior, like a dead man. It is a sign of death not to see, not to feel, not to answer, not to complain, not to show any preference, but to be moved and carried anywhere at the will of another. See how far your obedience falls short of this. ----St. Ignatius Loyola

Gray2023 · « **Reply #25 on:** October 29, 2025, 08:35:43 PM »

The perfection of a Religious consists in exact obedience to his Rules; and whoever is most faithful in their observance will be, by this fact alone, the most perfect. ----St. Alphonsus Rodriguez

SimonJude · « **Reply #26 on:** **Yesterday** at 10:36:04 AM »

"Even if the Pope were Satan incarnate, we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom. He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope. I know very well that many defend themselves by boasting: 'They are so corrupt, and work all manner of evil!' But God has commanded that, even if the priests, the pastors, and Christ-on-earth were incarnate devils, we be obedient and subject to them, not for their sakes, but for the sake of God, and out of obedience to Him.” - St. Catherine of Sienna

SimonJude · « **Reply #27 on:** **Yesterday** at 10:48:54 AM »

Pope St Pius X, 1912:

"The Pope is the guardian of dogma and morality; he is the custodian of the principles that make the family honest, the nations great, the souls holy; he is the counselor of princes and peoples; he is the leader under whom no one feels tyrannized, because he represents God himself; he is the father par excellence who brings together in himself everything that can be loving, tender, and divine.

"It seems incredible, and it is painful, that we must make this recommendation to priests, but unfortunately, in our days, we find ourselves in the harsh and unhappy condition of having to say to priests, "Love the Pope!"

"And how should the Pope be loved? Non verbo neque lingua, sed opere et veritate [not in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth]. When we love someone, we seek to conform to their thoughts, carry out their wishes, and understand their desires. And just as our Lord Jesus Christ said of Himself: si quis diligit me, sermonem meum servibit [If anyone love me, he will keep my word,] to demonstrate our love for the Pope, we must obey him.

"Therefore, when one loves the Pope, there is no room for discussions about what he ordains or demands, or how far obedience should go, or in what matters obedience is required. When one loves the Pope, one does not say that he has not spoken clearly enough, as if he were obliged to repeat in each man's ear that will which has been expressed so many times, not only verbally but also in letters and other public docuмents. One does not doubt his orders, using the easy pretext of those who do not wish to obey that it is not the Pope who commands, but those who surround him. One does not limit the scope in which he can and should exercise his authority. One does not put the authority of other, albeit learned, individuals who dissent from the Pope ahead of the Pope's authority; individuals who, if they are learned, are not holy, because one who is holy cannot dissent from the Pope.

"This is the outpouring of a sorrowful heart, which I express with deep bitterness, not against you, beloved brethren, but together with you, to deplore the behavior of many priests, who not only allow themselves to discuss and scrutinize the Pope's wishes, but are not ashamed to arrive at impudent and brazen disobedience, causing great scandal to the righteous and much harm to souls."

https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/it/speeches/docuмents/hf_p-x_spe_19121118_unione-apostolica.html

SimonJude · « **Reply #28 on:** **Yesterday** at 10:51:20 AM »

"To be subject to the Roman Pontiff, is absolutely necessary for slavation."

- St. Thomas Aquinas

SimonJude · « **Reply #29 on:** **Yesterday** at 10:55:20 AM »

"He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.”

--Saint Philip Neri

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