Quotes About Subdue

When you work with water, you have to know and respect it. When you labor to subdue it, you have to understand that one day it may rise up and turn all your labors to nothing. For what is water, which seeks to make all things level, which has no taste or colour of its own, but a liquid form of Nothing?

If you want to learn about one of history's greatest military commanders and uncover some of his secrets of drive--drive that enabled him and his small army to first subdue all of Greece and then the mighty Persian Empire--then you want to read this book.

A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.

Adam and Eve were placed in the garden with a mission. God said, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it" (Gen. 1:28). It was God's intention that as they bore more children, who also lived under God's rule, they would be extending the boundaries of His garden (His government) through the simplicity of their devotion to Him.

Those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle. They capture his cities without assaulting them and overthrow his state without protracted operations. Your aim must be to take All-under-Heaven intact. Thus your troops are not worn out and your gains will be complete. This is the art of offensive strategy.

The verb "un-man" is defined in a nineteenth-century dictionary as "to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish." In other words, there was a sense that truly going off the deep end—being unable to work or function, as happens in the disease of depression—ran contrary to true masculinity.

The meaning of the family is thus not to be sought in procreation but in a God-centered authority and responsibility in terms of man's calling to subdue the earth and exercise dominion over it.

General Groves came for dinner at the Chadwicks' and in the course of casual banter over the dinner table, he said, "You realize of course that the main purpose of this project is to subdue the Russians." Rotblat was shocked. He had no illusions about Stalin—the Soviet dictator had, after all, invaded his beloved Poland. But thousands of Russians were dying every day on the Eastern Front and Rotblat felt a sense of betrayal.

We must realize that it is not Satan who defeats us; it is our openness to him. To perfectly subdue the devil we must walk in the "shelter of the Most High" (Ps. 91:1).

The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.

We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

What the hell was he carrying this shit around for?" the second vamp demanded. "It's useful in making captures, subduing difficult prisoners." Pritkin shrugged. "Then . . . this is a weapon." "Yes." "But he was going on a date." Pritkin looked confused.

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

You are born to establish the kingdom of love as you subdue the earth

The last of our enemies is laid low.

So we see that God created man as a dominion creature who is commissioned with the "Cultural Mandate" (Gen 1:26) to subdue the earth to the glory of God. The question arises then: Will man subdue the earth to God's glory as God intended? That is, will God's creational purpose for man be realized — in history? Postmillennialism declares that it will.

So we see that God created man as a dominion-oriented creature who is commissioned with the "Cultural Mandate" (Gen 1:26) to subdue the earth to the glory of God.[21] The question arises then: Will man subdue the earth to God's glory as God intended? That is, will God's creational purpose for man be realized — in history?

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.

The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can you subdue such a nation as this!'

A woman's mission centered on home and family — vital spheres of ministry to be sure, but only a slice of the vast mission God originally cast by calling women to rule and subdue the earth.

The noble calling to rule and subdue the earth in God's name was perverted, as male and female tried to rule and subdue each other.

God's image bearers were divided, and the battle of the sexes commenced. Instead of ruling and subduing the earth, they turned against one another and sought to rule and subdue each other.

You have to be able to catch someone to arrest them.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.