Quotes About Submission

Humility – umiltà in Italian or umirtà in Sicilian – is a word that jumps off the page. It is now considered to be the most likely origin for the word omertà. Omertà is the mafia's code of silence, and the obligation not to speak to the police that it imposes on those within its sphere of influence. Evidently omertà was originally a code of submission.

the Torah itself sets obedience in the context of trust.

The challenge to Jacob-Israel is to turn to Yahweh and be willing to submit to his intention regarding the fulfillment of his purpose, rather than continuing to insist on working with its own ideas about how that should work out (Is 55:6-13).

You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda.

Notice that the older brother can't receive the father's generosity; he's closed off, curtained off, by his attention to Self. This is the hidden danger I spoke of: the stubborn life of the Self. The Exalted Me, unsubmitted and unsurrendered to the rule of Christ in me.

requiring all things to recognize and yield to that authority, announcing that the authority of Jesus Christ is now in effect here.

I give the Self Life to you, God. I abandon it, release it, deny it, turn it over to you. I'd much rather have you.

Jesus, I surrender the Self Life to you.

I am surrendering it, turning it over to Jesus, relinquishing its every right.

Satisfied, she calmly turned to Bull, who meekly knelt and sought her forgiveness

We must be cautious that as we accept by faith that nothing is too hard for God, we do not begin to dictate to him which hard thing he must do. He tends to have things in mind that go far beyond what we are able to ask or even think.

Definition implies subordination.

In passing however I must say of one thing that has pressed upon me lately and encreased my Humility and capability of submission and that is this truth - Men of Genius are great as certain ethereal Chemicals operating on the Mass of neutral intellect - but they have not any individuality, any determined Character - I would call the top and head of those who have a proper self Men of Power.

Let us pray. We all slumped immediately and unthinkingly in to the awkward crouch in which God was addressed.

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

I cannot dance, O Lord, unless You lead me.

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.

Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.

But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.