Philippa Gregory Quotes

I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.

I would rather obey than work miracles.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

Let me live and I will do all you wish.

Kiss the hand you cannot bite.

Chop off that head which does not bow to the Lord, O Nanak.

I keep my head down, my mouth shut and work hard.

I told my family, 'If I get out of line, just kick my butt.' The last thing that I want is to change.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

Obedience is the path to freedom.

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.