Christian Quotes on Obedience

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. 

--Saint Teresa 

"Whatever you do, think not of yourself, but of God." 

- St. Vincent Ferrer

'We are preparing ourselves for the time, which will come very soon, when we shall find ourselves at the end of our journey and shall be drinking of living water from the fountain I have described. Unless we make a total surrender of our will to the Lord, and put ourselves in His hands so that He may do in all things what is best for us in accordance with His will, He will never allow us to drink of it.'

--St. Teresa of Jesus

'We have learnt to recognize as freedom that which the Lord alone confers on us when he liberates us from lusts and desires and the other passions. "He who says, I know the Lord, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him," says John.'

--St. Clement of Alexandria

Woe to the rebellious children,

says the Lord,

Who carry out plans that are not mine,

who weave webs that are not inspired by me,

adding sin upon sin.

--Isaiah 31

"We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides." 

- St. Ignatius of Loyola

This level of obedience flows from absolute trust in the Apostolic authority of the Catholic Church and a very humble heart and mind.  He knows his own mind and senses are less likely to have the truth than the Church.  Haven't we all at some point thought we were absolutely certain about something, only to find that we were mistaken in the end?  It takes humility and trust to have obedience.
Here is an example of a another viewpoint:

"If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied."
--Charles Hodge, Presbyterian Theologian, Princeton

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
--William Ames, Puritan