Quotes About Submission

Defiance through compliance.

I'll tell you what love is," I told her. "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter!" "That was quite good," said Havisham, looking at me curiously. "Could I use that? Dickens won't mind." "Of course.

Puisqu'après tant d'efforts ma résistance est vaine, Je me livre en aveugle au destin qui m'entraîne

Their throats were bare for God.

A woman who slaves for a man does not have a marriage; she has a master.

Plus le corps est faible, plus il commande ; plus il est fort, plus il obéit.

Protestants are generally better educated than Catholics. This ought to be so: the do?trine of the former requires discussion, that of the latter submission. The Catholic ought to adopt the decision he is given, the Protestant ought to learn to decide for himself.

I found that stealing and being beaten went together, and in some way made up a single condition, and that by fulfilling the part of that condition that depended on me, I could leave the care of the other part to my master. From this idea, I set out to steal more calmly than before. I said to myself, What will come of it in the end? I will be beaten. So be it: that's what I am made for

Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do?

She kept saying that the flood was God's will and we had to submit to it. But I didn't see things that way. Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail—the gumption to try to save ourselves—isn't that what he wanted us to do?

I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

As long as we work on God's line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure.

God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

Show so clearly that this matter is God's work, not mine.

Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.

If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all.

Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.

I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.

I simply don't become attached to the outer world or to anything. I work for God. I do the very best I can, and then I give the results to Him.

... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.

Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.