Quotes About Submission

Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Be God or let God.

The highest duty is to respect authority.

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

I believe there is no god but Allah alone and Muhammed is his prophet.

God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best; His state Is kingly; thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest - They also serve who only stand and wait.

For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer is an opportunity to have a conversation with God to try to get in tune with what his will is.

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.

All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

All god wants us to do is do what he asks us to do.

I'm willing to submit to the sovereignty of the consumer, but I just want to know what they say.

Fine" I said icily. "I'll do this. but i want it noted that I'm doing this against my will." "I think we already figured that out, Miss Hathaway.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

Juan 5:30. No puedo Yo por Mí mismo hacer nada: como oigo, juzgo: y Mi juicio es justo, porque no busco Mi Voluntad, sino la voluntad del PADRE que Me envió.

What the Enlightenment rejected in the South Sea islands was what it perceived as a stupor, the docile submission to whatever bit of the given is coming your way. And what's coming your way is unlikely to be a breeze or a cow or a coconut, but a new kind of screen you can zap or click to create the illusion that life isn't passing you by.

All the devil asks is acquiescence; not conflict, not struggle. Acquiescence.