These limitations and restraints were laws. To be obedient to them was to escape hurt and make for happiness.

That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. “My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child.” I stopped.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does

I want to play every game, as does every player. But sometimes, you just have to listen to the manager.

Let’s say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you’re in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you’ll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.

The Christian heaven is a concept of the utmost simplicity. Heaven is for the obedient. Hell is for the disobedient. Heaven is for those who have faith. Hell is for those who don’t.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind