“Obedience to the will of God – or even what is merely believed to be the will of God – is actually more meritorious not less, when it is unaccompanied by emotional consolations and sensible fervor.”
R. H. Benson

For Reflection:
Why is an act of obedience more meritorious when it is unaccompanied by emotional consolations and sensible fervor? How can this insight help me to be spontaneously obedient even when I don’t “feel like it?”