Quotes About Submission

I thought the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom. It's the same thing. Humility.

We have to let go of our preconceived ideas, our carefully worked-out plans, our way of doing things so God can live in us. We need new life, His life. If we are going to make room to carry His glory, we have to die first. We have to take our place at the cross and say, as Jesus said, "Not my will but yours, God. Your will. I will drink the cup You have called me to drink, whatever the cost.

bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading and enjoying romance novels at the time, the first two unpublished manuscripts I wrote were both romances. I sold my third novel, 'Call After Midnight,' to Harlequin Intrigue after submitting it unagented.

There's probably a hundred more submission holds in the WWE because of me training to bring in those submissions so people could look at them a legitimize them for pro wrestling. You look at it before I was there and after I was there: it's different matches.

I'm not a trained actor. I surrender to my directors, and they make me act.

With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct.

that they had been ready for death, in fact, always had been. His father had lived life close to his God, in full submission and obedience to all of God's laws and ways. His father was, or had been, a good Jew. Richard didn't know where he was now. He didn't even want to think about it anymore. If he didn't free himself, then he would soon freeze to death, or worse yet, Momin would return to finish the job personally.

The Holy Spirit is coming to take out of the world a church that is a perfect bride. He must find in us perfect yieldedness, with every desire subjected to Him.

Will you let Him have your will; will you let Him have you? If you will, all His power is at your disposal.

But look at Mary. When the angel came to her, Mary said, "Be it unto me according to thy word." It was her Amen to the will of God. And God wants us with an Amen in our lives, an inward Amen, a mighty moving Amen, a God-inspired Amen, which says, "It is, because God has spoken. It cannot be otherwise. It is impossible to be otherwise.

Learn to obey before you command.

go to bed early, secure in the knowledge that God is in control, not you.

She'd succumbed to him, crumbled like bits of rocky shoreline against the waves.

Do not be to yourself more that God may be to you.

Destinul femeilor arabe este un lucru ciudat, cel putin in satul meu. Il accepti in modul cel mai firesc cu putinta. Nici nu ne trece prin gand sa ne revoltam. Ma mult, nici nu stim ce e revolta. Stim sa plangem, sa ne ascundem, sa mintim daca trebuie ca sa evitam batul, dar sa ne revoltam - niciodata. Pur si simplu pentru ca nu exista alt loc unde sa poti trai decat la tata sau la sot. Este de neconceput sa traiesti singura.

I cannot do anything without Godís permission.

Surrender is the venture of the bold man. A fearful person cannot surrender.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

The true servants of God are not solicitous that He should order them to do what they desire to do, but that they may desire to do what He orders them to do.

Give, O Lord, what Thou commandest, and then command what Thou wilt.