Quotes About Submission

We pray to obey God, not to "play God". We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to "let God be God". Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt 7:7).

No happiness on earth can be deeper than the happiness that comes from our willing and active submission to God's will even when he wills suffering.

The root of pride is found to consist in man not being in some way subject to God and His rule.

Your problem, however big it is (or however small), is His wise and loving will to you, even though it may not look wise or loving. It is His deliberate permissive will. And your response to it is your response to Him.

When they want you they already have you; all they need is the paperwork.

All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs. The human race had slowly evolved until it was in a position to operate things, run them as it saw fit. Now all at once it had been plunged back down the ladder again, prostrate before a Power against which they were children.

whatever humanness he had left felt the strangest of pleasures: that of offering eager obedience to a stronger power that was wholly right.

but there are fates that even the most powerful have to submit to. There is nothing I can do to help you change the way things are.

obsequious submissiveness to the religious authorities, and ultimately to Geneva.

Forse è tutto ciò che sono realmente: un leccatore di figa, una bocca schiava del buco femminile. Lecca! E così sia! Forse la soluzione più saggia per me è vivere a quattro zampe! Strisciare attraverso la vita ingozzandomi di passera, lasciando che a raddrizzare i torti e a fare i padri di famiglia siano le creature erette!

Kafka, of course, would be in a unique position to appreciate the irony of submitting his short stories to this kind of high-efficiency critical machine, the literary equivalent of tearing the petals off and grinding them up and running the goo through a spectrometer to explain why a rose smells so pretty.

Before we can pray, 'Thy Kingdom come,' we must be willing to pray—'My kingdom go!

question the ways of the almighty God? To face God is to be humbled. With humility comes wisdom; with wisdom comes the strength to wait upon the Lord.

Prayer is the only way to maintain a constant state of dependence on God.

According to all that God commanded [Noah], so he did. Noah did "according to all that God commanded him, so he did" (Genesis 6:22). Therein lies the key and secret to Noah's faith. When God told him to do something, he did it. He was a man who took God at His word.

Your will, not mine, O Lord.

Therefore submit to God.… Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. (James 4:7–8)

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

There will always be bosses, pastors and government officials over us—and this structure is actually a good thing. It is not our job to derail it or work around it.

Because your balls are even smaller than your brain and you need orders in triplicate before you can take a shit

She'd headed the terraforming teams, and it was her leadership which had carried the task through to success. She and her people, watched over by Kau-yung's flagship, TFNS Gulliver, had battled the planet into submission while most of the colony fleet had waited, motionless, holding station in the depths of interstellar space, light-years from the nearest star.

Experience rolls over everybody. We try to adapt, to learn, to accommodate, sometimes resisting, other times submitting to, whatever confronts us. Writers go further: they take this largely shapeless bewilderment and pout it into a mold of their own devising. Writing is all resistance.

The fear was respect, the respect, fear. If you didn't have the fear you had nothing.

What do we want from our mothers when we are children? Complete submission. Oh