Quotes About Submission

The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better.

Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every heart love Thee, every spirit adore Thee and every will be subject to Thee!

When you're in love with God, you're not afraid to yield your life to Him.

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.

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I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own.

One great law for all who would be truly led by God's Pillar of cloud and fire, is to take no step at the bidding of self-will or without the clear moving of the heavenly Guide. Though the direction be new and the way seem beset with difficulty, there is never any risk, provided we are only led of God. Each new advance needs separate and special authority from Him, and yesterday's guidance is not sufficient for to-day.

Some speak much of the exquisite sweetness, and rest of soul, that is to be found in the exercise of a spirit of resignation to God, and humble submission to His will.

One great law for all who would be truly led by God's Pillar of cloud and fire, is to take no step at the bidding of self-will or without the clear moving of the heavenly Guide.

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

If magistrates are unrighteous,.. the main end of civil government will be frustrated. And what reason is there for submitting to that government which does by no means answer the design of government?

May God give you Of the dew of the heavens, And the richness of the earth, And abundant grain and wine. May nations serve you And peoples bow down to you. Rule over your brothers, And may your mother's sons bow down to you. (Gen. 27:28–29)

This predilection of bright women to twist themselves into bizarre submissive postures from which only humor can release them is something die-hard feminists will never address. But Iris and I were in agreement: there is nothing that warms a smart girl's heart like the smile on the face of a sadist.

Always it pays for a woman to find a lover who is weaker than she is. Weaker men can be handled; stronger men prefer to handle. - Celeste Talbot

Of what does the consecrated life consist? Your life is a consecrated one when you are ready at all times to do the will of God—when you are willing and anxious that God may be fully expressed through you, through your thoughts, words, and deeds, during every hour of the day. You are not concerned with the question of results. Results belong to God. Here am I; send me (Isaiah 6:8).

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

And often we consider pains superior to pleasures when submission to the pains for a long time brings us as a consequence a greater pleasure.

The early Christians kept calling themselves a doulos in their letters to churches. They proudly bore the title of bond servant. They embraced the identity of a servant, and their identity impacted how they lived. Are you proud to be a bond servant of Christ? Or do you prefer another title? The reality: You are a servant.

The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.

She submitted patiently to all the handling of Hynes, as if she knew there were no use making any protest – but each day, just before four o'clock in the afternoon, something waked in her, and the training of a lifetime called her. She would tear against the wires of her pen or dash at the fence and try to leap it. She had not forgotten.

Beating God to the punch involves willingly bending one's life to Jesus now, and forever.

Obedience is your moral obligation, but it is never, ever your means of achieving or maintaining relationship with God.