Quotes About Submission

Your body will no longer belong to you, she read, voice quavering. Once you are a slave, it is the instrument of your master's pleasure to use as he...as he wishes!

Obeying the order you don't approve of is the only real proof of obedience. She taught me that.

Offer up your modesty as a sacrifice to service and revel.

To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

a woman, silent, voiceless, a mere woman who didn't bear on her shoulders the enormous responsibility of building the conquest with her words. A woman, who, contrary to what would be expected, felt relief in reclaiming her condition of submission, for it was a much more familiar sensation to be an object at the service of men than to be a creator of destiny

He growled softly at her.Then open your legs for me,Julia.This cat must have his cream.

Instruments of God. We are the hammer, but our Father is the carpenter. Do not thank the hammer for a carpentry job well done. Snelling, Lauraine. An Untamed Heart (Red River of the North)

horses, she did as asked. But when they followed

One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

To obey my queen in all things." His voice was like his skin, dark. It made me think of molasses and other thick, sweet things. A voice so deep it could hit notes low enough to make my spine shiver.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. Lawrence Durrell in Clea, book three of the epic Alexandria Quartet - which I am reading for the third time since my early 20s...relishing its superb prose and enigmatic insights into the nature of love.

I cannot speak In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad; But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek, Until made glad.

Resistance, however, is useless. (1939)

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

It is absolutely necessary that the Christian community be subject in all things to the Sovereign Pontiff if it wishes to be a part of the divinely-established society founded by our Redeemer.

It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.

This is stability at the cost of dependence ? because the primary cause of 'voluntary servitude', i.e. submission to power, even if it's not required – according to Étienne de la Boétie – is simply a habit.5

But the rules of the game don't simply dictate silence or obedience on the reader's part. What sustains the bond — the bondage, if you'll allow it — is its volatility. The dominant party is always vulnerable, the submissive party always capable of rebellion, resistance or outright refusal.

The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

Theory sometimes seems to me a way of taking revenge on literature—the critic masters the text and rewrites it in his own image, instead of submitting to it and listening to what it has to say. The aggressive ungainliness of so much academic writing about literature is a sign of this—it is unliterary writing about literature, which should be a contradiction in terms.

Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.

This is the essence of Kingdom Authority. Fathers can have no authority in the home until they have surrendered to the headship of Jesus. Mothers cannot pray with authority for their children when they have no submissive spirit to their own husbands. Pastors cannot lead, teach, or preach with anointing and supernatural power without being fully broken and surrendered to the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Word, and the commands of the Spirit.

Remember again the principle: We will never be over those things that God has set under us until we learn to be under those things that God has placed over us. There is strength through surrender. Are