Quotes About Submission

this universe is not a democracy, and you cannot democratize or Americanize the kingdom of heaven. You have no rights that would require God to treat you a certain way.

If it refuses to honor biblical revelation, we shall whip it into submission with the hard chain of logic.

How could you do such a thing to your husband?" Toni looked at Melisande with shocked eyes. "Quite simply because he bored me. He agreed with everything I ever said, and not once in our four years together did he give me a bruise. He knelt to me when I wanted him to dominate me. He let me make a fool of him with a dozen men, but Luque was, on that point, a perfect Spaniard. He turned his back on me and so I stabbed him!

Resulta asombroso y, como poco, moderno, que sea un dominante el que venga a quejarse de que el dominado no pone bastante de su parte…

C'est quand même épatant, et pour le moins moderne, un dominant qui vient chialer que le dominé n'y met pas assez du sien...

Can God be so powerful as to surrender all power? And the answer was yes!

Whoever you are, behold your master,He is, or was, or has to be.

Christmas was an ingenious plan designed by God to lay siege to the hearts of all men by submitting Himself to the greed of all men.

I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

Well Getaway was a script that was submitted to us for production and I read it and thought it would be a cool movie to make.

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.

There is only one death, so let it be in the path of Allah

To die at the command of another is to die twice.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

Dependence, sorrow, repentance, a longing to change—these are the gates to God's kingdom.

the Bible gives no direct advice for citizens of a democracy. Paul and Peter urged their readers to submit to authorities and honor the king, but in a democracy we the citizens are the "king.

I can only advance in the kingdom if I become like that woman: trembling, humbled, without excuse, my palms open to receive God's grace.

In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God

True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.

Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him.

A woman who loved him would have to learn obedience, and I was not yet ready to be an obedient wife.

If I refuse?" I asked, my voice very thin. He gave me his most cynical smile that left his eyes as cold as wet coals. "You don't," he said simply. "The world's not changed that much yet. Men still rule.