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Quotes About Submission

Are you troubled by demons of fear or doubt? Submit those areas to God, repenting of your unbelief, and then yield yourself to Christ's faith within you. Are you troubled with spirits of lust and shame? Present those very areas of sin to God, repent of your old nature and draw upon the forgiveness of Christ and His purity of heart.
~ Francis Frangipane
The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Martha, seeking to serve the Lord according to her own thoughts, was distracted and diverted. The
~ Frank Viola
There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
~ Frank Zappa
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
~ Frederick Douglass
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.
~ Frederick Douglass
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
~ Frederick Douglass
Ebrahim made him understand that, no matter what, he could not advance beyond the white line, for that would be in defiance of God's laws.
~ Freidoune Sahebjam
Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.
~ French proverb
Love is the state in which man sees things most widely different from what they are. The force of illusion reaches its zenith here, as likewise the sweetening and transfiguring power. When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert. Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)
~ Brandon Sanderson
Because he knew we'd never rebel on our own, so he gave us no choice.
~ Brandon Sanderson
What was a god who only made demands? Nothing but a tyrant with a different name.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I'm not the Ascendant Warior, Wayne,' she said. 'And I don't particularly care to be. I don't want someone I have to convince, someone I have to rope into submission. That sort of thing is for the courtroom, not the bedroom.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I used to ask my graduate students to submit a semester-long goal the second week of school. After doing this for years, I knew I could expect 90 percent of the goals to be unrealistic. Setting realistic goals is a skill and a prerequisite for hope.
~ Brene Brown
My dad was a shooter, or submission wrestler, and he loved to stretch anyone who dared to show up at his door. I remember him stretching the daylights out of Father Roberts, the Catholic priest who baptized all the Hart kids. Father Roberts got closer to God in my father's basement dungeon than he felt comfortable with. But Stu was non-denominational; he stretched a rabbi once too.
~ Bret Hart
The world is evil only when you become its slave.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
You show your trust in Him when you listen with the intent to learn and repent and then you go and do whatever He asks…..And if you then go and do what He would have you do, your power to trust Him will grow, and in time you will be overwhelmed with gratitude to find that He has come to trust you.
~ Henry B. Eyring
The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to— for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well— is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
~ Henry David Thoreau
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
~ Henry Miller
What shall he say to God? He says that God knows him through and through, and that he is willing to leave himself in God's hands.
~ Henry Miller
Humility means] a deep sense of our own meanness, with a hearty [sincere (Johnson)] and affectionate [strongly moved; warm; zealous (Johnson)] acknowledgment of our owing all that we are to the divine bounty [generosity; liberality; munificence (Johnson)]; which is always accompanied with a profound submission to the will of God, and great deadness to the glory of the world, and the applause of men.
~ Henry Scougal