Quotes About Submission

If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are miraculous; they are equally so whether they take place on dry land or on water.

Obedience is the only pure motive, the only one which does not in the slightest degree seek a reward for the action, but leaves all care of reward to the Father who is in secret and who sees in secret.

If I insist on knowing exactly what God is doing and what He plans to do with my future, if I demand to understand His ways with me in the past, I can never be content until I am equal with God.

There's no room for pride, not in a slave, not with the lord and master standing by.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

No? Believe me, the stiffest stubborn wills fall the hardest; the toughest iron tempered strong in the white-hot fire, you'll see it crack and shatter first of all. And I've known spirited horses you can break with a light bite—proud, rebellious horses. There's no room for pride, not in a slave, not with the lord and master standing by.

By all means. And this time, I assume, even you will obey the god's decrees.

I am not your slave. I serve Apollo.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

It is so easy to have problems with people when you are not God's will.

I can think of God as my savior and even my friend, but I must never forget that He is God, and after He saves me, I must put myself in subjection to Him and His will.

We are weak Christians simply because we have refused to be bondservants of Christ

God will win every contest in life, so stop trying to beat Him at his own game.

Prayer is an acknowledgement of your dependence on God and His direction for your life.

. . . God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best; his State is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er Land and Ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait.

Who bestBear his mild yoke, they serve him best: his stateIs kingly; thousands at his bidding speed,And post o'er land and ocean without rest;They also serve who only stand and wait.

It is said, in a Gorean proverb, that a man, in his heart, desires freedom, and that a woman, in her belly, yearns for love. The collar, in its way, answers both needs. The man is most free, owning the slave. He may do what he wishes with her. The woman, on the other hand, being owned, is institutionally and helplessly subject, in her status as slave, to the submissions of love.

themselves. I have wondered sometimes if a man, to be a man, must not master a woman and if a woman to be a woman must not know herself mastered.

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience...

Knowledge and strategies can be helpful. But knowledge can become an "Ishmael" if you don't put it on the altar.

The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don't create it. You don't define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.

A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the teachings of the Bible! A Christian is a person who has died with Christ, whose stiff neck has been broken, whose brazen forehead has been shattered, whose stony heart has been crushed, whose pride has been slain, and whose life is now mastered by Jesus Christ.