Quotes About Submission

Get the dogshit out of your ears, you witless corpse-fart,' growled Jean. 'Do you want to do as you're told, or do you want to kiss that pavement?' It turned out he wanted to do as he was told.

Women were born to serve and not to question the workings of gods or men. The blood and pain of women had always sustained the Earth, and would ever thus.

He's trying to control me, and he wants to use his religion to do that. Religion isn't just a power word- the word is power itself.

Jesus, right now I submit to you as my Prophet, Priest, and King. You're my wisdom and my righteousness, my holiness and my redemption (1 Cor. 1:30). I boast in you plus nothing, for there's nothing boastworthy in me.

With palms up in surrender and praise, I enter this day.

We "get" the gospel the best when we are face down and palms up before you in repentant faith—not in groveling despair, nor in face-saving penance, but in the beauty of repentant faith.

I so look forward to the day, Jesus, when every knee will bow and every tongue confess that you are Lord, to the glory of God the Father. It's going to be a loud and large day. But this Christmas Eve I say to myself, "Be still, my soul . . . behold calm glory, savor mild mercy, worship your newborn King with quiet certainty." I pray in Jesus' great and gracious name. Amen.

She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.

When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own.

When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

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

Renunciation is submission to time.

Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.

It's a time for us to take counsel from God rather than give him counsel about all the things we think he ought to be doing.

flattened myself out in the dust like a postage stamp

Always obey your superiors, if you have any.

When it came down to it, one of them called the shots. The other did what he was told. The question is, what if the other is a lot more than one?

A pair of train guards. A pair of grave diggers. When it came down to it, one of them called the shots. The other did what he was told. The question is, what if the other is a lot more than one?

You ate it up and you didn't ask for more, and you didn't complain.

him. "Don't think. Just swallow." As soon as Mama handed

The end of life is not to be happy nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

And since that fateful day, "I'll do it my way" has been the prideful inclination of every man and woman who has ever lived. We mess up our lives by refusing to accept God's boundaries. We mess them up more by trying to cover the resulting problem with our own flimsy, ridiculous efforts. Instead of humbly submitting to God, we stubbornly refuse to believe that He knows better. We are literally "hell-bent" to do it our own way.

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.