Quotes About Submission

La lección, para unos muchachos como vosotros, es que puede haber más honor en la sumisión y en la obediencia que en una imprudente rebelión.

În situaÈ›ii de criz?, oamenii înfricoÈ™aÈ›i se supuneau oricui p?rea s? È™tie ce face.

The ultimate act of power is surrender.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.

The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

Meekness is power under control.

The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.

If you make peace without defense power, then you should be really ready to be ruled.

Anoint me with "Fresh Oil" O God! Mold me and make me...totally for Your use! You are the potter, I am the clay. Amen

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.