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Quotes About Submission

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
~ Simone Weil
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
~ Simone Weil
Your gift is in the place of your obedience.
~ sindiswa matyobeni
Over-mastered by some thoughts, I yeelded an inckie tribute unto them.
~ Sir Philip Sidney
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
~ Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.
~ Letitia Baldrige
as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves
~ bell hooks
All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.
~ Ian Fleming
Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.
~ Martyn
You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.
~ Tom Hiddleston
I love the one who punishes me well.
~ Anne Rice
Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.
~ bell hooks
You love him as a falcon loves his master who binds and blinds it.
~ Cassandra Clare
To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble. . . . We must exercise the love of God as a power.
~ F. Enzio Busche
Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
When one has governed men for a long time, when one has thought that one has acted for the best, when one knows the pains the task has entailed, and then suddenly sees that one has never been either loved or understood, but merely submitted to, then one is overwhelmed with bitterness, and wonders whether one could not have found some better way of spending one's life.
~ Maurice Druon
When thou shewest Respect to any one, see that thy Submissions be proportionable to the Homage thou owest him. There is Stupidity and Pride in doing too little; but in over acting of it, there is Abjection and Hypocrisy.
~ Max Frisch
God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.
~ Max Lucado
But prayer isn't asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right.
~ Max Lucado
prayer isn't asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to do what is right.
~ Max Lucado
Así que humíllense ante el gran poder de Dios y, a su debido tiempo, él los levantará con honor. Pongan todas sus preocupaciones y ansiedades en las manos de Dios, porque él cuida de ustedes». (1 Pedro 5.6, 7 NTV)
~ Max Lucado
The snake pulled back the curtain to the throne room and invited Eve to take a seat. Put on the crown. Pick up the scepter. Put on the cape. See how it feels to have power. See how feels to have a name. See how it feels to be in control! Eve swallowed the hook. The temptation to be like God eclipsed her view of God.
~ Max Lucado
Everything you do or say should be done to obey Jesus your Lord. Colossians 3:17
~ Max Lucado
Those who try to keep their lives will lose them. But those who give up their lives will save them. LUKE 17:33
~ Max Lucado