Quotes About Submission

O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.

There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?

Whatever thou worshippest, whatever thou perceivest, whatever thou doest, give up all unto Him and be at rest.

You forget who submits, Eva," he said gruffly. "I've given up control for you. I've bent and adjusted for you. I'll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can't be tamed or topped. Don't mistake indulgence for weakness.

his adventure had mastered him, and till it released him there was nothing for it but to submit.

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

You cannot partake of the power of Christ's resurrection unless you are first willing to lay down your own will and desires, and die to all your pride and independence.

Divine support was not an entitlement; Muslims had to earn the favor of Allah by behaving as commanded and submitting to His will.

Submissive men, men who desire to serve as consensual slaves, are on one of the most difficult journeys in the world today, because they have rejected patriarchal privilege and embraced their own heart's calling instead.

Frightened people are obedient–not just physically, but intellectually and emotionally.

The place felt like a weapon expertly crafted to strip you of all humanity, hollow you to a shell creature that would do anything it was told for the slim chance of someday getting out into the living world again.

Kid Chaos : "Yes, ma'am".

The Prophet answered: "How could I but be a thankful servant?"1 He did not demand of his Companions the worship, fasting, and meditations that he exacted of himself.

Your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

hallmarks of the syndrome—a powerful individual's coercing a captive into submission, and even the demonstration of affection—have now been identified in cases of dependent children, battered wives, prostitutes, prisoners of war, and victims of hijackings.

submission can be seen in an entirely different light. It's a passage, not an enduring characteristic, and it serves a useful purpose. Juveniles that behave solicitously are more likely to gain access to food defended by adults. This enhances their nutritional condition and gives them a better chance, when they disperse, to form their own packs and become alphas. Submission is also necessary for survival—someone needs to coordinate group hunting.

Pleasing and appeasing our master and God at the same time was impossible.

Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church."