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Quotes About Submission

We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.
~ John Piper
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
~ Mark Strand
Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it.
~ Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.
~ Pope Shenouda III
The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
~ Edmund White
docil prin condiÈ›ie, prin gust, prin obicei, n-am ajuns mai târziu la rebeliune decât fiindc? dusesem supunerea la maximum.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Aquel que quiere ser amado, debe querer la libertad del otro, porque de ella emerge el amor, si lo someto, se vuelve objeto, y de un objeto no puedo recibir amor
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Not mine, oh, Lord, but thine.
~ Jefferson Davis
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
In active obedience, we worship God by doing what pleases God; but by passive obedience, we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
You get yourself born, says the German Government to the German citizen, we do the rest. Indoors and out of doors, in sickness and in health, in pleasure and in work, we will tell you what to do, and we will see to it that you do it. Don't you worry yourself about anything. And the German doesn't.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
~ Jerry Bridges
The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.
~ Jerry Bridges
The only allowable relationship between us is that of a servant. I am free to serve you. I am not free to "boss" you. This
~ Unknown
It's easier to surrender to confinement.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.
~ Richard North Patterson
Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material.
~ Rigoberto González
Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe?
~ Thomas Campion
I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey
~ Timothy Keller
You must be a servant if you want to be great in life
~ Sunday Adelaja
Anyone who wants to be great and influential person should be ready to pay the highest price in order to develop their gifts and submit themselves to this gift
~ Sunday Adelaja
God can only work through those who have totally identified themselves with His will and purpose
~ Sunday Adelaja