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Quotes About Submission

Be still, be quiet, I am in control, you must obey me, you are subject to my command, you cannot intrude where you do not belong."   It
~ Joseph Murphy
Be still, be quiet, I am in control, you must obey me, you are subject to my command, you cannot intrude where you do not belong.
~ Joseph Murphy
was always taught that the man is the master of the house and you just accept what he wants.
~ Joseph Wambaugh
No one around me was doing anything, even making conversation. They were all just perfectly inert, laid out prone or supine as if submitting to autopsy or dissection. Only the dead or the lowest of species can bask, I'm convinced.
~ Joshua Cohen
You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
These were no-man's-lands, limbos of a sort, places where language did not prevail and the only protection was flight, if you could run fast enough; or submission if you couldn't.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
A bully is one who forces you to laugh at his jokes, even if they are not jokes. That is how you know he is a bully. A
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Mom's new husband was eleven years older than Mom. He had been Mom's boss at the Buick dealership where she'd worked until they were married, and you could see that he was still Mom's boss—the way he spoke to her, not exactly giving orders, never forgetting to say Please but in a tone of voice that meant there was no negotiating. Of
~ Joyce Carol Oates
No ha sucedido nada que tú no quisieras y pidieras. »Así que cierra el pico. ¿Entendido?» La había zarandeado, con fuerza. Para que dejara de llorar, de sollozar. De atragantarse y vomitar. El hedor que impregnaba su coche le puso furioso.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
When you said Please to those who...had no option but to obey, what were you really saying?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Katya stood in the doorway at the rear of Mr Kidder's studio and could not seem to step out onto the terrace and run away. Panting like a dog that has been trained by his master and can't break out of his training, though his training has hurt, humbled, humiliated him and enslaved him.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
At such times you give yourself over to His will. There is no opposition to God, there is only surrender.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.
~ Joyce Meyer
Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.
~ Joyce Meyer
God does not always call us to go back physically to a place we have been. But if for example we have a difficult time submitting to a boss with a certain personality God may call us to continue working with someone who has the same personality until we master the situation in a godly way. God does not want us to be on the run He wants us to confront our fears and frustrations in order to find peace in Him.
~ Joyce Meyer
All god wants us to do is do what he asks us to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Do you want everything God has for you? Then be willing to do everything He asks of you.
~ Joyce Meyer
La obediencia es algo que llega lejos; cierra las puertas del infierno y abre las ventanas del cielo.
~ Joyce Meyer
Some of us are so stubborn we won't trust God until we have no other choice at all.
~ Joyce Meyer
Do you know how God tests our faithfulness? He assigns us to do something for a period of time that we don't want to do, something that is not fun o exciting, something that may require us to submit to someone else's authority for a while, and He'll tell us in our heart, "Just be faithful." For
~ Joyce Meyer
We have to be willing to lay aside our own desires.
~ Joyce Meyer
Three things Jehoshaphat did were very important. First, he acknowledged he had no might to stand against his enemies. Second, he admitted he did not know what to do. And third, he said his eyes were on God. By saying these three things, Jehoshaphat put himself in position for a miracle.
~ Joyce Meyer
Lord, I want Your will in Your timing. I do not want to be ahead of You, nor do I want to be behind You. Help me, Father, to wait patiently on You!
~ Joyce Meyer
1 Peter 5:6,7
~ Joyce Meyer