Quotes About Submission

Obedience isn't a lack of fear. It's just doing it scared.

Fear makes you docile.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.

If you really love someone, then your ego is not greater than they are. Your complete submission to the one you love is the sign of true love.

Life becomes easier when you accept that God made all things and that Hes in control.

A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.

Ô grandes attitudes de l'homme et de la femme où cherchent à se joindre, dans l'innocence des premiers jours et avec l'humilité de l'argile, ce que la création a séparé, où Eve est étonnée et soumise devant l'homme au côté de qui elle s'éveille, comme lui-même, encore seul, devant Dieu qui l'a formé.

Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.

Tutte le discussioni sullo stato delle donne, sul carattere e il temperamento delle donne, sulla sottomissione o l'emancipazione delle donne, fanno perdere di vista il fatto fondamentale, e cioè che le parti dei due sessi sono concepite secondo la trama culturale che sta alla base dei rapporti umani e che il fanciullo che cresce è modellato, altrettanto inesorabilmente comeLa fanciulla, secondo un canone particolare e ben definito.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Men were like horses, she mused dreamily. All they needed was breaking in.

I have a natural tendency to go away when told to do so. Do you really want me to?

If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?

I can kill with a single word. I can hurl a ball of fire into the midst of my enemies. I rule a squadron of skeletal warriors, who can destroy by touch alone. I can raise a wall of ice to protect those I serve. The invisible is discernible to my eyes. Ordinary magic spells crumble in my presence... But I bow in the presence of a master. -- Lord Soth to Raistlin Majere

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

Jonas var dypt skuffet over de to andre. Han hadde måttet bøye seg for «overmakten» som han uttrykte det.

I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.

Dr. Montessori believes in liberty for the pupil because she thinks of life "as a superb goddess, ever advancing to new conquests." Submission, loyalty, self-sacrifice seem to her, apparently, only incidental necessities of life, not essential elements of its eternal form.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.