Quotes About Submission

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this modern world of ours, she wraps her sublime body in great heavy furs and warms her feet on the prostrate body of her lover. I imagine the favorite of this beautiful despot, who is whipped when his mistress grows tired of kissing him, and whose love only grows more intense the more he is trampled underfoot. I shall call the picture Venus in Furs

I'm not having sex with you. Not willingly. If you starve me, strangle me, whip me or tie me to the bed, it'll be rape, which you said you wouldn't do. I draw the line at fucking a psycho kidnapping dickwad who makes me strip, kneel, crawl and call him Master.

The role of helpmate indicates not a status of inferiority but a functional difference. The Wife is in submission to her husband in the same way Christ is in submission to the Father. Yet Christ and the Father are equal and one! There cannot be two leaders. The purpose is functional teamwork that allows two people to complement each other each other, not compete with each other, in life.

When Can A Wife Disobey? When a husband asks his wife to do something directly contrary to Scripture.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Today wife-abuse is a common occurrence and, sadly, is seen sometimes in Christian marriages. Submission does not mean allowing another person to batter us, whether it battering is physical, verbal or emotional.

any henchman who thinks himself the equal of his superior is dangerous.

Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

Pulling out the chair beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world!

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

All progression in spiritual things is dependent upon the attainment of humility.

We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.

There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.

In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

A spiritual Christian should welcome any burden which the Lord brings his way.