How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.
It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.
I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.
All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.
A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual
Do you think that people will obey the truth because it is true, unless they love it? No, they will not. Truth is obeyed when it is loved.
