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Quotes About Submission

We are always hard with ourselves when we refuse God something.
~ Gertrud von Le Fort
For his redemption, man has nothing to contribute to God other than the readiness of unconditional surrender. The passive acceptance inherent in woman, which ancient philosophy regarded as purely negative, appears in the Christian order of grace as the positively decisive factor. The Marian dogma, reduced to a brief formula, denotes the doctrine of the cooperation of the creature in the work of redemption.
~ Gertrud von Le Fort
Nations that have their own religions and laws, cultivating the language appropriate to them, and which they defend with their own arms, such nations alone are properly free. But Providence ordains that when nations lack these things, rather than annihilate themselves in the rash of civil wars that breakout when peoples trample on their laws and religions, they proceed to submit themselves to preservation under other better nations.
~ Giambattista Vico
By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
He didn't protest much. Evidently he had a penchant for surrender.
~ Glen Duncan
To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.
~ Glenn Beck
Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allah, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e., Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.*
~ Glenn Beck
society pays great attention to the motives of dissenters, but none to those who submit to our institutions, either by ensuring that their actions remain concealed or by using any other means. Obedience to authority is implicitly deemed the natural state. In
~ Glenn Greenwald
Don't fight the weak if you can't fight God.
~ Goa Kerle
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
~ Goldwin Smith
I am totally in the hands of the Lord.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
As long as we submit ourselves to Jesus, we have the power to love this boldly.
~ Gordon Dalbey
Oh, most degrading of all ills that wait On man, a mourner in his best estate! All other sorrows virtue may endure, And find submission more than half a cure; Grief is itself a medicine, and bestow'd T' improve the fortitude that bears the load, To teach the wanderer, as his woes increase, The path of wisdom, all whose paths are peace...
~ William Cowper
Also he saw one dog, that would neither conciliate nor obey, finally killed in the struggle for mastery.
~ Jack London
Again and again, as he looked at each brutal performance, the lesson was driven home to Buck: a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to be obeyed, though not necessarily conciliated
~ Jack London
Bodissey: The evil man is a source of fascination; ordinary persons wonder what impels such extremes of conduct. A lust for wealth? A common motive, undoubtedly. A craving for power? Revenge against society? Let us grant these as well. But when wealth has been gained, power achieved and society brought down to a state of groveling submission, what then? Why does he continue? The response must be: the love of evil for its own sake.
~ Jack Vance
Whip us 'till we're on the floor, we'll turn around and ask for more, we're Phèdre's Boys! We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we're Phèdre's Boys! Man or woman, we don't care, give us twins we'll take the pair! We're Phèdre's Boys! ...But just because we let you beat us, doesn't mean you can defeat us, we're Phèdre's Boys!
~ Jacqueline Carey
Uncrown, and fill a servant's place.
~ James Allen
Every difficulty can be overcome if rightly dealt with; anxiety is, therefore, unnecessary. The task which cannot be overcome ceases to be a difficulty, and becomes an impossibility; and anxiety is still unnecessary, for there is only one way of dealing with an impossibility - namely, to submit to it. The inevitable is the best.
~ James Allen
I know Lytle likes to bang, but I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to take me down. Not for fear of my hands, but strategically he could look to put me down. He's shown he's very dangerous with submissions. His ground game has been very underrated.
~ Matt Serra
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
~ John Calvin
He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.
~ Saint Ignatius
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
When you're underwater getting pounded, you are at the mercy of the ocean.
~ Garrett McNamara