Quotes about Submission
he wants to be completely in control. In a way, it's a relief. ...[she] doesn't have to think when she's with him, or make a decision, or state a preference.
— Alice Hoffman
Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do that better than a good sound beating.
— Alice Walker
Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do better than a good sound beating. (Walker 2000: 34)
— Alice Walker
You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.
— John Piper
Life only works when Jesus is everything and we are fully submitted to Him.
— Louie Giglio
Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.
— James Dobson
It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.
— Vance Havner
I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.
— Oswald Chambers
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
— Oscar Wilde
Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.
— David Platt
Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.
— Ezra Taft Benson
If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.
— E Stanley Jones