Quotes About Submission

When God is leading us to challenge another, let not fear hold us back. Let us not argue or press our point. Let us just say what God has told us to and leave it there. It is God's work, not ours, to cause the other to see it. It takes time to be willing to bend the proud stiff-necked I. When

If there be good in that I wrought Thy Hand compelled it, Master, Thine – Where I have failed to meet Thy Thought I know, through Thee, the blame was mine.... The depth and dream of my desire, The bitter paths wherein I stray – Thou knowest who hast made the Fire, Thou knowest who hast made the Clay.

I can't,' but it was acceptance now. 'I can't,' whispered Dame Catherine, 'so You must.

Now you gird yourself and take yourself where you want to go … but one day another will gird you and take you where you do not want to go.

It's a landscape that controls you, sits you down and says, Shut up, pal, I'm in charge here.

The Highest, after all, is not to comprehend the Highest, but to do it.

In the deepest sense you shall make yourself nothing, become nothing before God, learn to be silent. In this silence is the beginning, which is to seek first God's kingdom

Why then did Abraham do it ? For God's sake, and (in complete identity with this) for his own sake. He did it for God's sake because God required this proof of his faith ; for his own sake he did it in order that he might furnish the proof.

Then how unconfident of Itself this Deity was, Who didn't want Its finest creations to know right from wrong; and Who reigned by terror, insisting upon the unqualified submission of even Its closest associates, packing off all dissidents to Its blazing Siberias, the gulag-infernos of Hell ...

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.

The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience.

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

The way to rise is to obey and please.

Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.

I am no longer a reasoning creature; I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide.

Hush, La Carconte. It is God's pleasure that things should be so.

He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?

The European generally submits to a public officer because he represents a superior force; but to an American he represents a right. In America it may be said that no one renders obedience to man, but to justice and to law.

The man who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his activity and even his opinions to their control, can have no claim to rank as a free citizen.

Coriolanus'] violence and pride overbalanced his services; and he that would submit to no law, was justly driven out from the society which could subsist only by law.