Saturday, December 25, 2010

QUOTATION: Obedience and Virtue

Obedience is in a way the mother and guardian of all other virtues in a rational creature, seeing that the rational creation has been so made that it is to man's advantage to be in subjection to God, and it is calamitous to act according to his own will, and not to obey the will of his Creator.

--St. Augustine, City of God, 14:12