Quotes About Submission

Where there is superior force, I serve under constraint; where there is power, I serve willingly.

Self-surrender sometimes has the potential for happiness. Submission never does.

My identity does not begin when I begin to understand myself. There is something previous to what I think about myself, and it is what God thinks of me. That means that everything I think and feel is by nature a response, and the one to whom I respond is God. I never speak the first word. I never make the first move.

There are a thousand ways of being religious without submitting to Christ's lordship, and people are practiced in most of them. We live in golden calf country. Religious feeling runs high but in ways far removed from what was said in Sinai and done on Calvary. While everyone has a hunger for God, deep and insatiable, none us has any great desire for him. What we really want is to be our own gods and to have whatever other gods that are around to help in this work.

What do you think God meant when he said, "Remove your sandals from your feet. You're standing on holy ground"?

from chapter 16, "Catacombs Presbyterian Church"): "When is this going to happen? How long do we have to wait? When does construction begin? Jesus's response was 'It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.' In other words, it's none of your business. Your question is irrelevant. That kind of information is of no use to you. It would probably confuse you, might discourage you, and would certainly distract you.

He tells the sun, 'Don't shine,' and it doesn't; he pulls the blinds on the stars.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own. Romans 4:3

When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

Bartleby's paradox: acceptance through refusal.

I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.

Quand j'arriverai chez nous ce soir, ce sera marée basse. C'est ainsi que je préfère la mer : vaincue, retirée mais hypocrite, laissant une frange de ses trésors à nu et feignant la soumission.

Every mountain has its soul... if the mountain does not accept you & you don't submit to her will, she will destroy you.

Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

But the Viet-Minh had had about ten months in which to establish their administration, train their forces with Japanese and American weapons (and Japanese and Chinese instructors), and kill or terrorize into submission the genuine Vietnamese nationalists who wanted a Viet-Nam independent from France but equally free of Communist rule. The first round of the war for Indochina already had been lost for the West before it had even begun.

she had to give up her independence and submit completely? wasn't that being like a male chauvinist? Dominique felt like an altered version of herself after a while, her mind foggy, emotions primal, senses heightened she enjoyed the sex and affection – outside in the fields when summer arrived, wantonly naked in the heat, unworried about anyone coming across them, what Nzinga called Dominique's sexual healing, as if she'd

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.

True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.