Quotes About Submission

God doth not need either man's work or his own gifts, who best bear his milde yoak, they serve his best, his State is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed and post o're Land and Ocean without rest: they also serve who only stand and waite.

Pride moves us to bow down before a mirror rather than before God.

I did, however, remember a line from a book by Dallas Willard that I had read just recently: "At the beginning of each morning I commit my day to the Lord's care. . . . I have already placed God in charge. I no longer have to manage the weather, airplanes, and other people.

But God himself hath plainly declared what are the qualifications of those souls which are meet to be made partakers of divine teachings, or ever shall be so; and these are, as they are frequently expressed, meekness, humility, godly fear, reverence, submission of soul and conscience unto the authority of God, with a resolution and readiness for and unto all that obedience which he requireth of us, especially that which is internal in the hidden man of the heart.

God's work consists in universal obedience;

You have no right to act on your own! You have taken vows, obedience being one! You answer to us! You have no right to step outside the church!

It is not that the noble nature loves monotony, any more than it loves darkness or pain. But it can bear with it, and receive a high pleasure in the endurance or patience, a pleasure necessary to the well-being of this world; while those who will not submit to the temporary sameness, but rush from one change to another, gradually dull the edge of change itself, and bring a shadow and weariness over the whole world from which there is no more escape.

He wasn't a big fan of actual blood. He wanted submission, and sex, and . . . admiration? Well, fear, anyway. Respect.

Don't fight it. Let yourself be eaten." "Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm finding your advice to be less than one hundred percent helpful

Awright—take 'im." He did not look down at the dog at all. He lay back on his bunk and crossed his arms behind his head and stared at the ceiling. From

The only condition of submission is to submit!… One nation, under one Government, without slavery, has been ordained, and shall stand." Some

At the sight of her submissively moving her lips his blood shouted Lord and his death leaned above him like a perfectly clear plate of glass.

Resistance is futile.

God's ways are not our ways. They are beyond our understanding.

You don't need to understand. You need only to obey and then reap the blessings of that obedience.

Faith is obedience nothing else.

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

I intend to make you scream for me, Riley.

Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father

The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.

Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.