"Obedience is more pleasing to God than all the sacrifices of penitential works, or of alms-deeds, which we can offer to him; he that sacrifices to God his property by alms-deeds, his honour by bearing insults, or his body by mortifications, by fasts and penitential rigours, offers to him a part of himself and of what belongs to him; but he that sacrifices to God his will, by obedience, gives to him all that he has, and can say: Lord, having given you my will, I have nothing more to give you."
CALL TO ACTION: Remember... He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross (Philippians 2:8), and obedience is better than sacrifices (1 Kings (1 Samuel) 15:22).
Source: Quote from "Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year" by St. Alphonsus M. Liguori; "On Obedience to Your Confessor" (4th Sunday after Easter); page 104; James Duffy & Sons (copyright 1882), 8th Edition
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