Quotes about Submission

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

Instead of trying to direct Me to do this and that, seek to attune yourself to what I am already doing.

God did not give the Bible so we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it.

The might that made Rome an empire will bow to the might that makes God God and the Lamb the Lamb. Brian Blount sums it up best: Babylons will be "sLambed.

In our local context, the pastors and elders and deacons are disciples of Jesus, called to submit first to him and to nurture others into serving one another as Jesus himself served his disciples. The strangest words in the church ought to be the words "authority" and "power.

There is no kingdom mission apart from submitting to Jesus as King and calling others to surrender before King Jesus.

you wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the

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

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

You need only look at the way in which she is formed, to see that woman is not meant to undergo great labor, whether of the mind or of the body. She pays the debt of life not by what she does, but by what she suffers; by the pains of child-bearing and care for the child, and by submission to her husband, to whom she should be a patient and cheering companion.

A "collective" mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent — who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the "whole" and accept humbly that the "whole's" verdict — we don't get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind.

He demanded of all people the one thing he had never granted anybody: obedience.