--- title: "4 Obedience Necessary Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 4 Obedience Necessary quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Obedience Necessary sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a9/silouan-the-athonite-14548_bears_obedience-is-necessary-not-only-for-monk_683589.jpg" --- > [Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/silouan-the-athonite/obedience-is-necessary-not-only-for-monks-but-for-all-people-even-the/) [Silouan the Athonite](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/silouan-the-athonite/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a9/silouan-the-athonite-14548_bears_obedience-is-necessary-not-only-for-monk_683589.jpg) > [My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neale-donald-walsch/my-joy-is-in-your-freedom-not-your-compliance-i-do-not-want-your/) [Neale Donald Walsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neale-donald-walsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24d/neale-donald-walsch-239_compliance_my-joy-is-in-your-freedom-not-your-compl_965856.png) > [“And meanwhile, even in spite of all my desire, I could never imagine to myself that there is no future life and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/and-meanwhile-even-in-spite-of-all-my-desire-i-could-never-imagine-to/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7c/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_future-life_and-meanwhile-even-in-spite-of-all-my-de_1265162.png) > [“Most of you, therefore, spend the bulk of your adult life searching for the “right” way to worship, to obey, and to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neale-donald-walsch/most-of-you-therefore-spend-the-bulk-of-your-adult-life-searching-for/) [Neale Donald Walsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neale-donald-walsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc8/neale-donald-walsch-239_adult-life_most-of-you-therefore-spend-the-bulk-of_2283821.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/obedience-necessary/#itemlist", "name": "Obedience Necessary Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not allow grace to live in them, and therefore they never have spiritual peace, while in the obedient soul the grace of the Holy Spirit enters easily and gives joy and peace. Whoever bears even a little grace in himself joyfully submits himself to all direction. 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It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Neale Donald Walsch" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neale-donald-walsch/my-joy-is-in-your-freedom-not-your-compliance-i-do-not-want-your/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24d/neale-donald-walsch-239_compliance_my-joy-is-in-your-freedom-not-your-compl_965856.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24d/neale-donald-walsch-239_compliance_my-joy-is-in-your-freedom-not-your-compl_965856.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24d/neale-donald-walsch-239_compliance_my-joy-is-in-your-freedom-not-your-compl_965856.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. 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We abase providence too much by ascribing our own notions to it, being vexed that we can't understand it. But, again, if it's impossible to understand it, then, I repeat, it is hard to have to answer for something it is not given to man to understand. And if so, how are they going to judge me for being unable to understand the true will and laws of providence? 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