Quotes About Submission

As long as we want to be different from what God wants us to be at the time, we are only tormenting ourselves to no purpose.

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way."

Having faith in God means trusting in Him even when everything inside of you wants to take control.

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

[Eva Braun] always said, "you're the Führer, you can do whatever you want to do."

When I want you to beg, I'll tell you.

If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.

Lord, I want to be your slave.

Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!

And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.

Since when did ethics and morality become weapons of submission?

Weakness. Kneel before it, child. Make of it a thing to worship. There is no point in fighting - the world's sadness is far more powerful than you can ever hope to be, and that is what you must come to understand.

You cannot have Christ for your Savior unless you also have Him as your Lord.

Listen, don't bother trying to resist Varian. He is stronger than you. Let him amuse himself.

I will give you meat, Salamiel thought, and once you eat of my offerings, you will be mine.

Louis experienced a tremor of unease. He was at this man's mercy now.

It was hard to believe this creature, this perfect being, lay submissive before her.

Take me, Sacramante, I thought, eyes closed. I am yours.

Lily had stepped back from him, into Othman's control.