Quotes About Submission

Reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye in time is accommodated to darkness.

Our senses, our appetites, and our passions, are our lawful and faithful guides, in most things that relate solely to this life; and, therefore, by the hourly necessity of consulting them, we gradually sink into an implicit submission, and habitual confidence. Every act of compliance with their motions facilitates a second compliance, every new step towards depravity is made with less reluctance than the former, and thus the descent to life merely sensual is perpetually accelerated.

Judgement, like other faculties, is improved by practice, and its advancement is hindered by submission to dictatorial decisions, as the memory grows torpid by the use of a table book.

Upon my word, I believe, you men think, it is no matter for us women to have any consciences, so as we do but study your wills, and do our duty by you. Men look upon themselves as gods of the earth, and on us women but as their ministring servants! — But I did not expect that you would be so unreasonable.

The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.

It's a dominance thing, Lissa chimed in. Like dogs. He was making clear to you that he is the alpha dog. I looked at her. I mean, you're the alpha dog, she said quickly. But he doesn't know that yet. He's testing you. I don't want to be the alpha dog, I grumbled. I don't want to be a dog, period.

Now and then the fable of the horse recurs to me. Weary of liberty, he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

Stupid that everyone in his case Is praising his particular opinion! If Islam means submission to God, We all live and die in Islam.

Göttin! Königin! Selbst Sklavin des Schicksals!

John offered baptism in order to help his fellow Jews repent, but Christ, who was sinless, did not need to repent. Rather, Jesus' submission to baptism foreshadows his work on the cross, where although he had no sin of his own, he "made himself sin" (2 Corinthians 5:21) in order to wipe away our sins.

When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself.

We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.

True worship is revealed by who we obey, not who we sing to.

Any place in our lives and heart where we are exerting our will and ways over God's will and ways will inevitably drain us of energy and resources. Exertion=Exhaustion. On the other hand, death to self requires only that we lay down at the foot of the cross and give up the right to run our lives. We say with Christ, "Not my will but Yours be done Father." The Crucified life is the entrance into true rest. #ComeAndDie

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

contrary to an all-too-common misjudgement, it is not the case that theology and science are chalk and cheese, a matter of airy opinion compared with solid fact. Nor does the essential difference between them lie in a contrast between belief on the basis of submission to an unquestionable authority and belief based on grounds of rational motivation.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

If we are not our own, but the Lord's, it is clear to what purpose all our deeds must be directed. We are not our own, therefore neither our reason nor our will should guide us in our thoughts and actions. We are not our own, therefore we should not seek what is only expedient to the flesh. We are not our own, therefore let us forget ourselves and our own interests in as far as possible.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

For, until men feel that they owe everything to God, that they are cherished by his paternal care, and that he is the author of all their blessings, so that nought is to be looked for away from him, they will never submit to him in voluntary obedience; nay, unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity.

Believers are also trained in obedience by means of the cross. For thus they are taught to live according to God's will rather than their own. If everything went according to their own plans, they would never know what it means to follow God.

holding firmly to the principle that true religion is founded upon obedience. Unless