Discernment

"Disobedience always leads to a lack of discernment."

- R.A. Vernon

Understanding and Obedience

"Understanding is the reward of obedience. Obedience is the key to every door."

- George MacDonald

There Is Healing In Letting Go

"The temptation to whine and gripe about my old supervisor was huge. I didn’t entirely resist it. But then I realized that staying stuck in that rut meant I would continue to allow him to define who I was, what I did, and how I performed. My own healing started the day I began to force myself to pray for him."

-An excerpt from New Beginnings: How I Managed my Way Through and Organizational Nightmare by Glynn Young for High Calling Blogs. You can also go read Glynn's blog at Faith, Fiction, Friends

The Importance Of Children Being Obedient

"The below excerpt from Charlotte Mason has spurred me on greatly…

“The mother’s great stronghold is in the habit of obedience. If she begin by requiring that her children always obey her, why, they will always do so as a matter of course; but let them once get the thin end of the wedge in, let them discover that they can do otherwise than obey, and a woeful struggle begins, which commonly ends in the children doing that which is right in their own eyes."

- Sarah Mae quoted this statment in her post My Primary Focus Right Now - Obedience From My Babes on her blog Like a Warm Cup of Coffee

Learning Obedience

"Although He was God's Son, yet He learned obedience from the sufferings which He endured; and so, having been made perfect, He became to all who obey Him the source and giver of eternal salvation." (Hebrews 5:8-9, WNT)

"This passage from Hebrews is one of endless fascination to me. Jesus—the perfection of God in human flesh—was "made perfect" (or "made complete") by learning obedience to His Father. He became something more than He already was in this experience."

- An excerpt from Made Perfect by Anne Bundy on her blog Building His Body