Quotes About Submission

We, the women, who rule the house But ours is not to question why… Ours is but to do and die and Husband never to defy.

Accept loss forever Be submissive to everything, open, listening No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge Be in love with your life

Are you going to let that four-armed teenie-bopper play dollies with you til you grow and die?" Sai shuddered, "No, that I will not do. I am praying to The Seven for the courage to find a way out. An honorable man would rather die than submit to such indignities." I squeezed his shoulder, "That's the spirit!

In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.

Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.

Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His

It takes faith, too, and obedience, to conquer selfishness, that unsubmissive characteristic which, if unchecked, produces profound personal melancholy and solitariness. Selfishness is a form of self-worship, and we have been told, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me" (Exodus 20:3).

The household revolved around Matthias's power, his anger, and obedience to him in all things.

Self-surrender is essential, and by that is meant the confession of personal impotence.

The church, with its eternal call for submissive trust and blind obedience

Villeneuve looked at Lieutenant Fulcran Fournier and gave him the nod. It was time to surrender.

You only have to know that at any given moment Jesus Christ has the right of way in your life and you're in the place where God wants you. You don't have to beg for blessing. You thank Him in anticipation. It is inevitable. MAJOR IAN THOMAS

Priest or not, I will have you whipped if you try to leave. Who's to stop me, who in all the world? Only the king, and he gives me what I ask. So who is to stop me? No one." "Then I tell you truly you must learn to stop yourself.

This was how it would be for her, she realised when Edwin king decided he no longer needed a seer. She would stand, plump and fed and brushed like a sacrificial cow, with gilded horns and a ribbon around her neck, too stupid to know she was being led to slaughter.

It is no longer enough for the citizen to submit—the modern state demands accomplices.

The liberation promised by every invention ends with the growing submission of the man who adopts it to the man who manufactures it.

Modern man accepts any yoke, as long as the hand imposing it is impersonal.

Nicht nach Freiheit strebt der Verstand, sondern nach Unterwerfung. Die Wahrheit ist der Glanz der Notwendigkeit.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

He laid a hand on my arm and said calmly, with resignation, "Don't get excited and angry. It's useless to get angry with them. They have the last word always. If they say something happened, it happened. It's useless to resist. I've learned this from my personal experience.

Why is it, Master," he asked bitterly, "that despite all a physician is able to do, he is as a leaf before the wind, and the real power lies only with Allah?