Quotes About Submission

God does not bless religious efforts—He blesses heart-felt obedience.

What can you give God but bhakti bhava? He owns it all anyway.

Water and grace flow to persons and places that are lower.

Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place.

Sweetheart, all men are animals. Feed us, pet us, and use a firm hand, and we'll worship at your feet.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

Submit in silence and scream from within.Or...Stand up and shout and silence the pain.

Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

True prayer is pleading with God for that which He wants to do anyway.

If you complain about small calamities, Allah will give you great calamities.

God prefers your health and your obedience to your penance.

Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

Boys are still led to believe that power is associated with domination.

There, stacked high on his desk, was a tower of paper. Thick slabs of manuscript. Slush. Unsolicited, unagented, unloved. This was where dreams came to die. Book proposals, cover letters, entire manuscripts – they gathered like so much detritus on the desks of publishers everywhere.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.