I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am [blue] in the face, but I cannot carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God: and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey Him.
- C. S. Lewis
By obeying one learns how to obey.
- George MacDonald
Had he done as the Master had told him, he would soon have come to understand. Obedience is the opener of eyes.
- George MacDonald
Obedience is the one key of life
-George MacDonald
I have experienced the ease that obedience yields with practice. It is getting past the first two or three hurdles of initial obedience that's the trick. When I figure out a formula that's consistent, I'll let the world know. Until then, all I can offer you is to pray. He has the power to lend us for the task of perfect obedience. For some reason He doesn't find it prudent (at least not at this stage of our existence) to keep the power flowing in a continuous stream. He also seems to think prayer a good thing for transmitting that power to us.
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