QUOTATION: Obedience

Yes, dear brethren, we may safely say that the Saints found all their happiness in keeping the commandments, and that they would sooner have endured martyrdom than to transgress them: and did not the martyrs suffer tortures and death, just because they would not transgress the commandments of God? What shame for us then, dear brethren, when at the judgment day we will face these martyrs; we who so often are prompted in our actions by even the mere thought of "What will the world say?"

--St. Jean Vianney, the Cure of Ars

QUOTATION: The Ten Commandments

God wrote on the tables of the Law what men did not read on their hearts.

--St. Augustine

QUOTATION: The Ten Commandments

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

--G.K. Chesterton

QUOTATION: Seeking the Lord

The Lord is hidden in His own commandments, and He is to be found there in the measure that He is sought.

--St. Mark the Ascetic

QUOTATION: Commandments

God does not command impossibilities, but by commanding admonishes you do what you can and to pray for what you cannot, and aids you that you may be able.

-- Saint Augustine of Hippo