Georges Rouault Quotes

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey.

Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Let me live and I will do all you wish.

Conformity--the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Believe, obey, fight.

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.

I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

When Steven Spielberg thinks you're the one, then I'll do anything. If you want me to put a dead horse on my head, I'll do it.

I can't sing, perform, do anything apart from Christ. I have no power or strength of my own.

If the leadership asks me to die a martyr, I am ready ... and if they ask me to resign, I am also ready