[OBW]

I would have suspected Authority and Submission (aka Spiritual Authority) since the quote concerns submission, and by implication authority (a requirement to obey). In fact, one of the more important statements (implications?) is that you can never speak against a deputy authority. Only God can discipline them. Therefore you are always required to submit to them. How he could then suggest that you can submit yet not obey is evidence of a lack in his "superior intellect."

(I have some nagging thought that there is a movie where someone is mocking someone's self-proclaimed superior intellect. Maybe one of the Star Trek movies, like The Wrath of Khan. But I can't quite place it.)