Quotes About Submission

La mujer que no hace del hombre su súbdito, su esclavo, ¿qué digo?, su juguete, y que no le traiciona riendo, es una loca.

He had seen them bowing down low in islam, that supple word whose associated meanings in Arabic ripple out to include peace and wholeness, but which means above all submission. True, it was not a forced submission but a willed and willing acceptance.

You mean to make me beg for it?" "Not at all, my lord. I mean to keep it

Is biblical headship synonymous with taking control over someone else and forcing her to comply when she resists? And, does biblical submission require a wife to always do what her husband says? Does it mean she has no choices of her own or can't ever say no without being labeled as rebellious or ungodly?

In the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Only the obedient believe, and those who believe are obedient" (The Cost of Discipleship, p. 69).

the Spirit himself is sovereign over the mission, the church can only be the attentive servant. In

Cannibalism and slavery are probably the oldest manifestations of human predation and submission. Although both are now discouraged, their continued existence in psychological forms demonstrates that civilization has achieved great success in moving from the concrete and physical to the abstract and psychological, while persisting in the same purposes.

sometimes God wants your son. sometimes He'll settle for a ram. PouncySilverkitten:

Fate is coming whatever you do, so quit wriggling around, it's only making you look more ridiculous than you already do.

Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all.

Objectionable, tedious, irritating labour, - this is the condition of genius, which no doubt explains the reason why men so rarely achieve anything. Genius must submit to cultivate an ass within itself - the condition being so humiliating that man will seldom take up the job.

I ask only one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now; but if even that is impossible, command me to disappear and I will do it. -Vronsky

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, "Peace, child; you don't understand."

The pickaxe and the basket built cities The steadfast house the pickaxe builds... The house which rebels against the king, The house which is not submissive to its king, The pickaxe makes it submissive to its king.

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You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

Servants, serve well your masters. For this is right. And in so doing, you do it as to the Lord.

The other men came in and somehow Lou got the same order across to them. We all went to comply—like so many dumb sheep.

she prayed. Not merely for wisdom, but for submission. Would she ever be ready—and willing—to let God work out the details of her future?

To let go of even life, if need be, and accept his calling.