Quotes about Submission
Lordship is when "What does the Lord want?" trumps, "What do I want?
- Stephen Kendrick
Anything that erodes the fear of God will intensify the fear of man.
- Edward Welch
Our Lord was born not just of her flesh but also by her consent.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Like train announcers, they know all the stations, but never travel. Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Without Me you can do nothing"… nothing.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Man is the head of a woman in exactly the same way that Christ is the head of the Church.' Ephesians Chapter 5, Verse 23. The husband is to sacrifice himself for the wife. He was the head by dying, sacrificing Himself and pouring put His blood. The headship is based on self-forgetfulness for the sake of the beloved.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
- Martin Luther
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
- Bede Griffiths
Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.'
- Ezra Taft Benson
So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
- Bishop TD Jakes
only when mankind would submit to the One God who created all—only then would mankind even approach the "peace" of which so much talk could be heard…but toward which so little action was seen. I
- Malcolm X
The end and object of a rational constitution is, to do nothing rashly, to be kindly affected towards men, and in all things willingly to submit unto the gods. Casting therefore all other things aside, keep thyself to these few, and remember withal that no man properly can be said to live more than that which is now present, which is but a moment of time.
- Marcus Aurelius