It is with obedience to your CALL that I take up the burden of government LEADERSHIP for the FINAL time.

The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to ISSUE orders to all TROOPS and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining FIDELITY to the CONSTITUTION, and OBEDIENCE to the ministers of Hungary.

Any number of SCOUNDRELS, having money ENOUGH to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire SOLDIERS, and with soldiers extort more money; and ALSO COMPEL general obedience to their will.

All men who give up themselves in obedience unto GOD, they are RECEIVED in Christ's obedience, viz. in the FULFILLING of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel.

What is discipleship? It is PRIMARILY obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is FAMILY HOME EVENING. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking ANYTHING that is not good for us.

Just as the EARTH is a planet in its own right, so each of US is an INDIVIDUAL in our own sphere of habitation. We are individuals, but we LIVE in families and communities where order provides a SYSTEM of harmony that hinges on obedience to principles.

In a SENSE, all of my BOOKS have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a CULTURE of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal SYSTEMS.

We are all responsible to JESUS first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. DISCERNING the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive RELATIONSHIPS collide is a CALL to HUMBLE, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.

Grades don't measure anything other than your RELEVANT OBEDIENCE to a MANAGER.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really WANT to LIVE.

I'm the KIND of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly SUCCESS. I SAW all these blessings God had given me. The WAY to GIVE thanks is obedience to God.

We must BECOME a people who are in submission, that is, submitted completely to the mission of the Church, 'in statu missionis.' Thus, living fully WITHIN the mainstream of grace, under the mantle of GOD's divine authority, and by uniting ourselves to the obedience of Christ on the CROSS, we participate in the reversal of Adam's sin.

Over TIME, Benedictine monasteries appeared around the world, always with the same anomaly: BROTHERS LIVING in OBEDIENCE, meditation, and faith just BENEATH the rush of the world.

The FIRST LAW of Heaven is obedience, and it should be the first law of every HOME. It is the foundation of an orderly home, a successful family, and the successful lives of the CHILDREN. The WIFE is the key.