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Quotes About Submission

Give what you command, and command what you will.
~ Saint Augustine
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
Sweet Love say Where, how and when What do you want of me? Yours I am, for You I was born: What do you want of me? . . .
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
Condition a man (or a woman) to value aggression above all other virtues, and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be anger. Condition a woman (or a man) to value submission above all other attitudes and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be sadness.
~ Sam Keen
Condition a woman (or a man) to value submission above all other attitudes and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be sadness.
~ Sam Keen
I feel like a marionette - like someone else is pulling the strings and I have no choice but to comply.
~ Samantha Schutz
Nay, in many cases open denials of prayer prove the most excellent answers, and God's not hearing us is the most signal audience. Therefore at the foot of every prayer subscribe "thy will be done," and thou shalt enjoy preventing mercies that thou never soughtest, and converting mercies to change all for the best, resting confident in this, that having asked according to his will he heareth thee.
~ Samuel Lee
I rather wish Him my heart than give Him it; except He take it and put Himself in possession of it (for I hope He hath a market-right to me, since He hath ransomed me), I see not how Christ can have me. O, that He would be pleased to be more homely with my soul's love, and to come in to my soul and take His own.
~ Samuel Rutherford
My shallow and ebb thoughts are not the compass Christ saileth by. I leave His ways to Himself, for they are far, far above me . . . There are windings and to's and fro's in His ways, which blind bodies like us cannot see.
~ Samuel Rutherford
Give Him leave to take His own way of dispensation with you; and though it be rough, forgive Him; He defieth you to have as much patience to Him, as He hath borne to you .
~ Samuel Rutherford
the import of the book was that even the king must obey the law, because the king is also under the law.
~ Samuel Rutherford
In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project.
~ Sara Gran
No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.
~ Sara Paretsky
Now you know who bows down to whom. - Emma
~ Sara Shepard
Take my day, take my night, take my sunrise, take my life.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal.
~ Paul Harvey
If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.
~ Philip Yancey
It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me"-GC
~ Sylvia Day
We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
~ Alexander Pope
Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.
~ Oswald Chambers
Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.
~ Robert Jordan
Il n'y qu'un seul point sur lequel je me sens supérieur au commun des hommes : je suis tout ensemble plus libre et plus soumis qu'ils n'osent l'être.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar