Obedience means an unassuming, submissive, and pliable humor, and a will in readiness for all that is good. Obedience makes a man submit to the biddings, the forbiddings, and the will of God; it subjects the senses and the animal powers to the higher reason, so that a man may live decently and reasonably. And it makes men submissive and obedient to Holy Church, to the sacraments, to the prelates and their teaching, to their commandments and their counsels, and to all the good customs practiced by Holy Christendom.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)
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