Quotes About Submission

God can do little for men who lose their sense of dependence upon Him.

Devemos reconhecer o governo humano como algo designado por Deus, e devemos ensinar obediência a ele como um dever sagrado em sua esfera legítima. No entanto, quando suas exigências entram em conflito com as reivindicações de Deus, devemos obedecer a Deus e não aos homens. O "Assim diz o Senhor" não deve ser deixado de lado por causa de um "Assim diz a igreja" ou um "Assim diz o Estado".

They are equal in nature (that is, they are both boys). Yet they are separate persons. In most cases one will submit to the other's expertise, insight or perceived authority in the relationship. In this sense one might be described as subservient in duty to the other, at least in certain areas.

God never encourages self-reliance.

Proverbs 19:21 says there are many devices or plans in every human heart. Nevertheless, it's God's will that shall prevail. That is to say obviously, God's will is bound to prevail over your own will (mark you). ~Emeasoba George

My Lord Jesus supplies everything I need in my life, but he also demands everything. He asks for the whole of my life - my heart and my soul and my mind.

la natura della moltitudine è tale che o serve con umiltà o domina con superbia»,

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

And neigh like Boanerges—Then punctual as a StarStop—docile and omnipotentAt its own stable door—

All exercise of authority perverts, and submission to authority humiliates.

It seems at first sight strange that any man of genius should have patiently submitted to rules which, from the point of view of art, were perfectly arbitrary.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Vinet gave his wife the terrible, fixed, cold look with which men enforce their absolute dominion. The hapless helot, punished incessantly for not having the one thing that was wanted of her, a fortune, took up her cards.

The good man signed the papers with the innocence of a child who does what his mother orders without question.

A woman deprived of her free will can never have the credit of making a sacrifice.

The lover submits to all the caprices of a woman; and as a man is never vile while he lies in the arms of his mistress, he will take the means to please her that a husband would recoil from.

The married woman is a slave whom one must know how to set upon a throne.

God's will is a mysterious thing sometimes. But I don't have to understand. It's enough for me to know that whether He reveals why He's done something or not, He is all-knowing.

To keep under, that is to submit. The Soul can submit to God at the time when it can send itself under the power and authority and dominion that God has over it.

The message of the Bible is clear: Jesus Christ is Lord! It's a fact. Bringing our lives into submission to His will in everything is the key to being a godly woman. It is also the path to joy.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

Every single time I confess my self-reliance and submit my life to God's will in a particular area, I am worshiping God--as surely as any sincere Israelite offering a lamb in obedience to God's plan.

The discipline of the Gospel is coming to God on His terms.

Once people envisioned the possibility of change in a fixed order, the end of an age of submission came in sight; the turn to individual conscience lay ahead. To that extent the Black Death may have been the unrecognized beginning of modern man.