Quotes About Submission

he acceded to anyone who seemed to know more about any issue he didn't care about,

It's submission," Rediger murmured. "The shocking and simple idea, which had never been so forcefully expressed, that the summit of human happiness resides in the most absolute submission.

the truth is that men were simply giving up the ghost.

Cependant, l'animal le plus faible est en général en mesure d'éviter le combat par l'adoption d'une posture de soumission (accroupissement, présentation de l'anus).

Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!

I gave in, and admitted that God was God. C. S. Lewis

submittin' to my husband ain't never been my strong point. I be tryin', Lord knows I do. And it help when you got a good husband. But the promise God made in the garden of Eden, about puttin' enmity between the husband and wife, He wasn't lyin'! Every husband and wife have they times when they get out of line.

Lord, I want to follow You and be a godly wife, too.

In the end, if he didn't change his mind, we usually defaulted to his leading since he was the one who had to report to God on behalf of our family (I learned that in a Titus 2 class at church).

Bondage is a pleasure of the mind just as much as it is of the flesh.

The truth is that my work — I was going to say my mission — is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

Oración ha de ser el comer, y el beber, y el pasearse, y el jugar, y el leer, y el escribir, y el conversar, y hasta el dormir, y rezo todo, y nuestra vida un continuo y mudo «¡hágase tu voluntad!», y un incesante «¡venga a nos el tu reino!» , no ya pronunciados, mas ni aun pensados siquiera, sino vividos.

But the true believer is not really interacting with the belief system; he usually lets his psychic energy be absorbed by it. From this submission nothing new can come; consciousness may attain a welcome order, but it will be an order imposed rather than achieved.

Prayer is far more boring and difficult if we seek to live one part of our lives as if it belonged to God and another part as if it belonged to us.

Friends are those who serve the cause when they can. Followers are those who submit their skills and resources to have Jesus transform them. But family are those who surrender completely, laying down their agenda fully for the agenda of Jesus. This is what the disciples eventually do.

Remember, an incomplete application is a reason to disqualify.)

We say to God, 'Show me and I'll believe.' Instead, God says to us, 'Believe, and I'll show you.' This is the life of following Jesus Christ. We say, 'God, show me your will and I'll obey you.' God says, 'Obey me, and I'll show you my will.

Do Not Attempt To Alter Your Assignment. Just do it.

I am insisting that you'd better know how to spell my name before you send me a book. And you definitely should know something about my history and the kinds of books I'm looking to publish.

Obedience is the ultimate act of worship. It is also an act of faith because it's an act of trusting love.

It's not that we are getting more of the Spirit so that we can use him for our will; he is getting more of us so he can use us for his will.

Orar no es vencer la renuencia de Dios, sino echar mano de su voluntad".

We agreed that our own ideas and expectations tended to make us deaf to hearing God's will. We needed, at least at times, to just lay them down and listen. Leave the next move entirely up to God.

In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker.