Quotes About Submission

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

Willful submission to a sinful man has become an act of vulnerability for a woman.

All God wants us to do is to ask him what he wants us to do, and then do it.

Our relationships must be shaped not by what we want, but by what God intends.

When God's wise and loving rule over you is replaced with self-rule, other people become your subjects.

If I am going to love you as I should, I must worship God as Sovereign

You are either speaking as a mini-king, seeking to establish your will in your relationships and circumstances; or you are speaking as an ambassador, seeking to be part of what the King is doing. There

You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.

For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions.

For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For

For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions. Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.

For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission.

Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked.

You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This renunciation of reality can feel natural and pleasant, but the result is your demise as an individual- and thus the collapse of any political system that depends upon individualism.

Most the power of authoritarianism is freely given.

The King did what all wise husbands do. He did as he was told.

When a natural instinct surfaces, the ego wants to have it satisfied, but the superego does not allow that. The ego submits to the "higher" superego, but is left with the problem. It begins a struggle with the impulse and, to reduce the pain of not satisfying it, engineers a defense that allows itself to make sense of its decision to submit.

I send all my short fiction to 'Ontario Review' because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she's fantastic.

But it appeared to Dorian Gray that the true nature of the senses had never been understood, and that they had remained savage and animal merely because the world had sought to stave them into submission or to kill them by pain, instead of aiming at making them elements of a new spirituality, of which a fine instinct for beauty was to be the dominant characteristic.

Hypatia, like all girls who intend to be good wives, made it a practice to look on any suggestions thrown out by her future lord and master as fatuous and futile.

If the master allows himself to be commanded by a servant, the latter becomes autocratic; the mind is similarly enslaved by submitting to bodily dictation.

My miracle is what God does when I obey.

If he knew anything of her habits, she was certain to be somewhere about. He was not looking for her. He was submitting himself to the possibility of encounter.

Much of our effort to do things for the Lord is really the resurgence of our desire to dominate and make things happen in our own strength.