Quotes About Submission

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

No man of God does something against the Lord

The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

It is by humility that the Lord allows Himself to be conquered so that He will do all we ask of Him

Remember that true humility consists in being ready for what the Lord wants to do with you and happy that he should do it, and in considering yourselves unworthy to be called his servants.

as He refuses to force our will, He takes what we give Him but does not give Himself wholly until He sees that we are giving ourselves wholly to Him.

la verdadera humildad está mucho en estar muy prontos en contentarse con lo que el Señor quisiere hacer de ellos, y siempre hallarse indignos de llamarse sus siervos.