Quotes About Submission

We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.

Strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of His will and timing in our lives, even if the outcome is not what we hoped for or wanted.

It is not the part of faith to question, but to obey.

Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith.

The Bible never says humble yourselves before man, it says humble yourselves before the Lord, and He shall lift you up. And many men are not walking in the true way of the Lord.

The strongest person is one who is dependent on God.The greatest is the one who is humble before God and the tallest is the one who kneels and bends before God.

Worship is not about being cool, it's about being humble and glorifying God!

At that word, Fates, her eyes flashed. She was a goddess of argument, born from the bright, relentless mind of Zeus. If she was forbidden something, even by the three gray goddesses themselves, she would not simply submit. She would set about parsing the constraint down to its atoms, and try to eke a way through.

Wie lustig, « fuhr sie fort, »dass du selbst nach so langer Zeit immer noch erwartest, dass man dich belohnt, nur weil du gehorsam warst. Ich dachte, du hättest diese Lektion im Palast unseres Vaters gelernt. Niemand war so unterwürfig und ein-faltig wie du, und trotzdem trat der mächtige Helios dich umso rascher mit Füßen, denn du kauertest ja bereits da unten.«

Misericordia», era una; otra fue «sí», y también «por favor». Y también conocía la frase «¿Qué ordena?». El padre le había enseñado a ser una esclava.

Néanmoins, une partie de moi était lasse d'être aussi craintive et respectueuse, de contempler le paradis en se demandant ce qu'on lui autoriserait.

Wie lustig,' fuhr sie fort, 'dass du selbst nach so langer Zeit noch immer erwartest, dass man dich belohnt, nur weil du gehorsam warst. Ich dachte, du hättest deine Lektion im Palast unseres Vaters gelernt. Niemand war so unterwürfig und einfältig wie du, und trotzdem trat der mächtige Helios dich umso rascher mit Füßen, denn du kauertest ja bereits da unten.

Be not as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding; whose mouth must be held with bit and bridle" (Psalms 32:9).

from the moment I understood that it was impossible for me to do anything by myself, the task you imposed upon me no longer appeared difficult. I felt that the only thing necessary [10]was to unite myself more and more to Jesus and that "all things will be given to you besides.

My mortifications consisted in breaking my will, always so ready to impose itself on others, in holding back a reply, in rendering little services without any recognition, in not leaning my back against a support when seated, etc., etc. It was through the practice of these nothings that I [15]prepared myself to become the fiancée of Jesus,

Surely such phantoms could rap and knock upon the tables of German military personnel, scattering schemes as they plotted, and thenceforth frightening them into submission without further need for bloodshed.

after the viking leader's submission in 878.

monasteries should actively place themselves under the protection of the king and queen.

Act of Grace my former state; how soon Would highth recal high thoughts, how soon unsay What feign'd submission swore: ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep: Which

Then to submit, boasting I could subdue Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vaine, Under what torments inwardly I groane; While they adore me on the Throne of Hell, With

Hee boulder now, uncall'd before her stood;   But as in gaze admiring: Oft he bowd   His turret Crest, and sleek enamel'd Neck,   Fawning, and lick'd the ground whereon she trod.