Quotes About Submission

We are not saved by doing our own will, but the will of the Father; we do that not by interpreting it or reducing it to mean what we would like it to mean, but by accepting it in its fullness, as made manifest to us by the situations and circumstances and persons his providence sends us. It is so simple and yet so difficult.

For each of us, salvation means no more and no less than taking up daily the same cross of Christ, accepting each day what it brings as the will of God, offering back to God each morning all the joys, works, and sufferings of that day.

Tal como nos enseña la naturaleza, cuando una persona se comporta sumisamente, realmente está intentando apaciguar a alguien que se percibe como amenazante (depredador) o reconociendo su superioridad.

En el contexto civilizado, la estrategia de sumisión trae más problemas que ventajas. El sumiso desconoce sus derechos personales y, por lo tanto, no los defiende ni los ejerce. Se acurruca, se entrega, se agacha, pero a diferencia de lo que ocurre en el mundo animal, aquí el opositor no perdona: "Al caído, caerle".

Si gana el sentido de la dignidad, habrá respuesta asertiva, si triunfa el miedo, habrá evitación/sumisión.

Hay personas tan prudentes que no comen, y otras tan sumisas que piden permiso para hacerlo. Ambas mueren por inanición. La moderación es un atributo admirado por casi todas las culturas y requisito fundamental para garantizar la convivencia y salvaguardar la integridad psicológica de la gente, pero si se hace de ella un supervalor se comienza a transitar peligrosamente por los límites de la falsedad y el bloqueo emocional.

Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

It is a great thing when I discover I am no longer my own but His. If the ten shillings in my pocket belong to me, then I have full authority over them. But if they belong to another who has committed them to me in trust, then I cannot buy what I please with them, and I dare not lose them. Real Christian life begins with knowing this.

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him." -

We must be brought to a place where, naturally gifted though we may be, we dare not speak except in conscious and continual dependence on Him.

Attempting to follow Him without denying the self is the root of all failures.

The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.

To be accountable means that we are willing to be responsible to another person for our behavior and it implies a level of submission to another's opinions and viewpoints.

I used to pray, "I'm gonna live for God!" Now I pray, "God, come live through me." I used to pray, "I'm gonna work for God!" Now I pray, "God, come do your work through me." I used to pray, "I'm gonna serve God!" Now I pray, "God, please come and serve through

He seldom gives us all we need in order to understand, but He always gives us all we need to obey.

I will never deny my King.

I'm at the mercy of Editors, who are hidden behind panels and are never seen by mortal eyes.

Yet alongside this rebellion against the father, a respect for and acceptance of his authority continued to exist. This ambivalent attitude toward authority— rebellion against it coupled with acceptance and submission —is a basic feature of every middle-class structure from the age of puberty to full adulthood and is especially pronounced in individuals stemming from materially restricted circumstances.

because there is nothing so arousing as fear and submission and the threat of violence.

Texans are no longer comfortable with submitting their political will to a people who, they perceive, wouldn't know liberty and good government if it jumped up and bit them in the ass. There is a precedent for this feeling in Texas. The Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico specifically calls out the other Mexican States for their weakness in the face of Santa Anna's tyranny.

Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, nourishment of mind by His truth, purifying of imagination by His beauty, opening of the heart to His love, and submission of will to His purpose, and all this gathered up in adoration is the greatest of human expressions of which we are capable.' -William Temple, archbishop of Canterbury (1881-1944)

And in His will is our peace.

Al mercatino si contratta accanitamente, al supermercato, invece, si paga senza battere ciglio il prezzo indicato. Per far quadrare i conti, il cliente si sottomette al più forte ma schiaccia il più debole.

We can entrust our life into His hands. Jesus also teaches us the most important prayer any of us can utter: Your will, O God.