Quotes About Submission

We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.

What seems over your head is always under His feet.

O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

Learn to obey before you command.

I have dedicated my life to the way of Allah, Most High.

Two words that will change your life.... Yes Lord!

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

El separar las misiones de la iglesia es no entender la gran comisión. Las misiones son responsabilidad de la iglesia. La iglesia local envía misiones y esos misioneros deben buscar plantar iglesias locales. Es un error que los cristianos busquen ser misioneros sin primero estar sujetos a una iglesia local. Tristemente, hay muchos misioneros auto-nombrados quienes se rehúsan a someterse a la iglesia. Ellos desean el apoyo de las iglesias locales, pero no su supervisión.

Pastors are leaders, but they are to be a part of a plurality of elders that submit to each other and are held in check by the congregation. It is not wise for any one leader, apart from Christ Jesus, to be without accountability.

1. Self-Sacrifice (subjugation out of guilt) 2. Submissiveness (subjugation out of fear)

Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to "great tribulation" when we look around and see others seemingly much less obedient who triumph even as we weep. But time is measured only unto man, says Alma (see Alma 40:8), and God has a very good memory.

We must be willing to place all that we have--not just our possessions (they may be the easiest things of all to give up), but also our ambition and pride and stubbornness and vanity--we must place it all on the altar of God, kneel there in silent submission, and willingly walk away.

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

Jesus, may there be less of me and my junk and more of You and Your kingdom." I will reduce, so He can increase.

Anna imagines that, were she able to visit the caves in which people first dwelled, she would find scrawled drawings that have been omitted from museums and history books. There would be scenes of ritual aggression and submission, painted in blood, caked with dried seminal fluid. They are the very antithesis of fresh, the rites between men and women; age-old and rotten to the core.

There was no finer woman than Andrea Gray, and she belonged to Sean. "Sean!" A white light blinded him. Damn, wasn't it enough that Wade had them cowed without the man beaming light in his eyes?

A wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. It's in the bible.

The gospel frees us from demanding our own way, because nothing we desire to obtain is worth sinning against such love and kindness.

She made one instinctive effort to resist and then yielded, slipping down on to the floor. Not a single word was exchanged. The act was silent and brutal

Y a sabe que soy todo suyo - susurró, a modo de conclusión-. Haga conmigo lo que quiera.

La educación de la mujer no puede llamarse tal educación, sino doma, pues se propone por fin la obediencia, la pasividad y la sumisión.