Quotes About Submission

He . . . said a short prayer and then climbed the steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued after a few seconds. In the almost fifty years that I worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God.

He differentiated between Christianity as a religion like all the others—which attempt but fail to make an ethical way for man to climb to heaven of his own accord—and following Christ, who demands everything, including our very lives.

Hitler was moving ahead with his own plans for the church. He knew quite well how to deal with these Protestant pastors. "You can do anything you want with them," he once remarked. "They will submit . . . they are insignificant little people, submissive as dogs, and they sweat with embarrassment when you talk to them.

When he said they needed to humble themselves and listen to God's commands and obey them, he was not posturing. He wanted to impart this vision of God and was saying that one must utterly trust God now and must know that hearing him is indeed all that matters.

It's only logical that if God always answered our prayers as we wanted him to, those answers to our prayers could hardly be considered miraculous. They would only be part of a predictable system that we could manipulate, if only we knew how. It really makes God not God, but a "God" or a god whom we are ultimately able to control through our efforts, whether via prayer or via our "moral" actions designed to elicit a favorable response.

thinking about the deep call of Christ, which was not about winning, but about submission to God, wherever that might lead.

Christians do not wish to escape repentance, or chaos, if it is God's will to bring it upon us. We must take this judgement as Christians." Christians

Jeremiah was not eager to become a prophet of God. When the call came to him all of a sudden, he shrank back, he resisted, he tried to get away. - Dietrich BonHoeffer

None was to touch any one's property on the way. They were to bear it patiently if any official or non-official European met them and abused or even flogged them. They were to allow themselves to be arrested if the police offered to arrest them.

FAN?Y?M FAN? OLANI ?STEMEM... AC?Z?M AC?Z OLANI ?STEMEM.... RUHUMU RAHMANA TESL?M EYLED?M GAYR ?STEMEM... ?STER?M FAKAT B?R YAR-I BAK? ?STER?M... ZERREY?M FAKAT B?R ?EMS-? SERMET ?STER?M... H?Ç ENDER H?Ç?M FAKAT BU MEVCUDATI B?RDEN ?STER?M..

The inanimate, lifeless cloud that resembles carded cotton has of course no knowledge of us, when it comes to our aid, it is not because it takes pity on us. It cannot appear and disappear without receiving orders. Rather it acts in accordance with the orders of a most powerful and compassionate commander.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.

I submitted it to a publisher and received a kind, encouraging rejection letter.

Shut up! Sit Down!

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.

Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one.

I love leg locks and heel hooks and kneebars. They're complex and hard to avoid.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.