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Quotes About Submission

He'd of took you boy. Like a bride to the altar.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You know what is in Room 101, Winston. Everyone knows what is in Room 101.
~ Cory Doctorow
And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.
~ D.H. Lawrence
She knew she submitted to life, which was her immediate master. But from her death, her ultimate master, she winced with fear and shame.
~ D.H. Lawrence
She was slightly afraid—deeply moved and religious. That was her best state. He was impotent against it.
~ D.H. Lawrence
I want you to treat me nicely and respectfully. Call you 'sir', perhaps? she asked quietly. Yes, call me 'sir'. I should love it. Then I wish you would go upstairs, sir.
~ D.H. Lawrence
He could only say the one thing he was afraid to say: Will you hide in my house, master?
~ D.H. Lawrence
He looked back at her. She saw his eyes, tense and brilliant, fierce, not moving. But her will had left her. A strange weight was on her limbs. she was giving way. She was giving up.
~ D.H. Lawrence
I'm the terrorist, do what I say or I'll terrorize you.
~ D.J. MacHale
God must bring us to a point--I cannot tell you how it will be, but He will do it--where, through a deep and dark experience, our natural power is touched and fundamentally weakened, so that we no longer dare trust ourselves.
~ Watchman Nee
Only those who are subject to authority can be authority.
~ Watchman Nee
The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind.
~ Watchman Nee
Whenever man touches God's delegated authority he touches God within that person; sinning against delegated authority is sinning against God.
~ Watchman Nee
Emotion must go through the cross (Matt. 10.38-39) in order to destroy its fiery nature, with its confusion, and to subject it totally to the spirit. The cross aims to accord the spirit authority to rule over every activity of emotion.
~ Watchman Nee
que cedamos todos los derechos de nosotros mismos y nos sometamos al señorío absoluto de Jesucristo en cada área de nuestras vidas.
~ Watchman Nee
If man's soul wills to obey God, it will allow the spirit to rule over the man as ordered by God. The soul, if it chooses, also can suppress the spirit and take some other delight as lord of the man.
~ Watchman Nee
How much in our prayers is self completely forgotten and the will of the Lord is alone the thing that is sought?
~ Watchman Nee
Los que somos tan justos según nuestra propia opinión, y sin embargo, tan ciegos, necesitamos tener a lo menos una vez en la vida un encuentro con la autoridad de Dios para que seamos quebrantados hasta la sumisión y comencemos así a aprender la obediencia a su autoridad. Antes de que un hombre pueda someterse a la autoridad delegada de Dios tiene que conocer primero la autoridad inherente de Dios.
~ Watchman Nee
Whatever prayer is not according to God's will is utterly
~ Watchman Nee
Al servir a Dios no debemos desobedecer a las autoridades, porque el hacerlo es un principio de Satanás.
~ Watchman Nee
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment.
~ Watchman Nee
is most vital that the Lord breaks us.
~ Watchman Nee
Learn to recognize God's sovereignty. Learn to rejoice in God's pleasure. This was Abraham's first lesson, namely that God, not himself, was the Source.
~ Watchman Nee
As we bring our will and thought to God His own will and thought begin to be reproduced in us, and then this becomes our will and thought. This kind of prayer is most valuable and full of weight. Let
~ Watchman Nee