Quotes About Submission

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.

On the dance floor, as much as you say, 'Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only go where he takes you ' they still try to be in control.

The Librarian has spoken, sally! We Dare Not Disobey!

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Her word had no weight; her convenience was always to give way.

A woman of seven-and-twenty," said Marianne, after pausing a moment, "can never hope to feel or inspire affection again, and if her home be uncomfortable, or her fortune small, I can suppose that she might bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse, for the sake of the provision and security of a wife.

she could still moralize over every morning visit; and as she was no longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters' beauty and her own, it was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without much reluctance.

What he didn't do was control me, or try to mold me into a little wife, some old-fashioned, muted version of who I was. I saw many men do that to many women I knew. They would choose these vibrant, talented, beautiful women, and suck the life and passion and beauty out of them by bullying them into submission.

I don't need handcuffs to enslave a woman. -Ranger to Stephanie

Unlike Etsy, which is all handmade, we print and ship the products, not the designers. We relieve the designer from having to make and ship everything, package it, and provide customer service. All the designer has to do is submit art and keep doing what they love doing.

Profit at any cost is one extreme of the spectrum. On the other extreme is unselfish submission for the social good or, more accurately, charity. Somewhere in the middle is peaceful, and much required, coexistence.

The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God.

The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.

Give your hands to Him for His work, your feet to walk His path, and your ears to hear Him speak.

Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.

Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.

A successful Christian life will not be based on how much work we have done, but rather, on how close to the Lord we have become and how obedient we have been.

My health is in the hands of Allah, who has ways of testing us. Whatever happens, happens. I a'int the greatest - it's Allah. I gave myself a job. I work for God.

The best way to get a move to work is to make it so uncomfortable that the opponent gives it to you to stop the pain.

I can't expect God's blessing on my work unless I do it God's way.

I would rather obey than work miracles.

In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.