“Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His.
If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.”

—  Thomas Aquinas

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Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catho… 1225–1274

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