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Quotes About Submission

Je n'ai plus aucune force, aucun courage, aucune domination sur moi aucun pouvoir même de mettre en mouvement ma volonté. Je ne peux plus vouloir ; mais quelqu'un veut pour moi ; et j'obéis.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Do you still tell me that I have power over the waves? Oh! foolish men, do you not know that to God alone belongs such power? He alone rules earth and sky and sea, and we and they alike are His subjects, and must obey Him. The
~ H.E. Marshall
Perfect obedience would be perfect happiness, if only we had perfect confidence in the power we were obeying.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Does not simply contain God's word: it becomes God's word for anyone who submits trustfully and in faith to its testimony.
~ Hans Kung
I have a track record of accepting my party's decisions. I do whatever work is given to me with determination. That's all.
~ Amit Shah
It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.
~ Andrew of Crete
From Mary we learn to surrender to God's Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
~ Pope John Paul II
People have no idea how true the promise of Allah is. Put your trust in Allah, and He will see you through.
~ Nouman Ali Khan
He (God) is not looking for smart people, because He is the smart one. All he wants are people simple enough to trust him.
~ Jim Cymbala
The most beloved manifestation of obedience to God is trust in Him
~ Ibn Ata Allah
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him.
~ Scot McKnight
Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
~ Ed Townsend
Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.
~ Peter Gabriel
Obedient people never trust in themselves.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
What does God require of us? Our part is to believe. Our work is to trust the Lord. His requirement is that we let go and let God.
~ Joyce Meyer
I always say to audiences of men: "Cooperation beats submission. Trust me."
~ Gloria Steinem
Trust God To Do Things It His Way... Not Your Way.
~ Cyc Jouzy
It is incomprehensible to me, the fear that can affect men in political offices. It is shocking the way they submit to forces they know are wrong and fail to stand up for what they believe. Can their jobs be so important to them, their pres- tige, their power, their privileges so important that they will cooperate in the degradation of our society just to hang on to those jobs?
~ Shirley Chisholm
Trample! Trample! It is to be trampled on by you that I am here.
~ Shusaku Endo
Awareness of our helplessness and dependence makes us stand in awe before God.
~ Sidney Greidanus
Christ, you who were crucified! Now I have given up everything that could bind me. And I have placed myself in your hands, if you would find my life worthy enough to be freed from its servitude to Satan. Take me so that I may feel that I am your slave, for then I will possess you in return.
~ Sigrid Undset