Quotes About Submission

No miremos al hombre sino sólo a la autoridad de que está revestido. No obedecemos al hombre sino a la autoridad de Dios en ese hombre.

Any action which lacks in obedience is a fall, and any act of disobedience is rebellion.

Tan sólo la obediencia honra completamente a Dios, pues solamente ella toma a Dios como su centro.

Para que se manifieste la autoridad, debe haber sumisión. Si ha de haber sumisión, es necesario excluir el yo; pero según nuestro yo, la sumisión no es posible. La sumisión sólo es posible cuando uno vive en el Espíritu. Esta vida en el Espíritu es la suprema expresión de la voluntad de Dios.

After you have said "thy will be done," what more can be said?

Some students, he realized, were in the workshop primarily to avoid being drafted, and not because of an overwhelming desire to write. Quietly, he let it be known that he didn't care whether the young men in his classes submitted anything; he wouldn't flunk them, which could result in losing their student deferment and making them eligible for the draft.133

Submitting to others, rather than affirming our own reality, is the heart of active co-dependence—we give up our own inner world in order to be accepted by others.

The perfect Muslim, standing upright in the presence of his Maker, at once proud and submissive, free from all illusions and from any bias in dealing with his fellow men, exemplifies fitrah. He is both perfect master and perfect servant.

Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and seem to attach a kind of moral imperative to willing participation in it. Any other attitude, so they say, is reactionary or escapist or anti-social. Perhaps, after all, they have found a divinity to worship; and, if they have, the only charitable comment must be: God help them!

The Muslim is inclined to believe that man has something more important to do than engage in a wrestling match with temptation, which he sees as a distraction from his principle business, the constant awareness of God.

Time to paint your but white and run with antelope-in English- Stop arguing and do as your told.

The People's' historic duty was to become a nameless herd and submit to the absolute control of a small pack of wily and vicious intellectuals.

The true Christian is not a man who has merely submitted to certain rites, but one who has adopted these rites because he believes that they were established by his Lord and desires thus to express his love and devotion to him, seeking for praise "not of men, but of God.

Lord, help me first of all to confront in my own life all that is not according to Your will. Amen.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.

It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our sucess; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements. He demands our obedience.

This was the scene she saw in her mind. What he needed--or at least wanted. Submission. Stepping around the chair, she stood before him. Dropping the sheet she had used to wrap around herself, she stood before him, naked, listening to his sharp inhalation of breath. Then, she lay at his feet, just as she saw in his mind. "No," he whispered, but she knew this was what he wanted. Her to come to him willingly. To accept him as he was.

The duty hardest to fulfil, To learn to yield our own self-will.

Nowhere else in the whole range of life on earth, is this degradation found--the female capering and prancing before the male. It is absolutely and essentially his function, not hers.

That was emasculating." "Says the guy wearing the collar.

8. Surrender means trusting Him.

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and banded Which way please them...