248 Quotes About Submission

If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline.

It’s not about our liabilities. Rather, it’s about the absence of any belief in our abilities. And if we can embrace our abilities in order to press our liabilities into bowed submission, we have in fact rendered that which is impossible as suddenly descended into the realm of that which is gloriously possible.

When things don’t go as planned in the journey to your destination, don’t give up. Defy defeat. Resist submission. Hold onto hope.

Time seemed to stop; the world around them stilled. There was only her. His thumb caressed at her lips, the lips he wanted to kiss.Katianna rolled her face in his palm—a caressing nuzzle and he stilled, his breath froze in his chest.A response. A submissive one at that. His heart, stilled fractured by that single nuance, but his loins burst with a wave of warmth.A response—it had been a response. Oh fuck he had to kiss her. His whole body was screaming for her now.

I don’t want your apology. I want your obedience.

There is, in fact, no safeword for chemical burns under one’s fingernails.

all believers should “submit to each other out of reverence for Christ.” In many ways, wives should submit to their husbands in the same way any believer should submit to other believers, specifically by living according to the lifestyle the apostle Paul lays out earlier in the chapter. This mutual submission is an accountability to be held to God’s standards, an accountability in which both husband and wife are called to participate.

Submission makes love easy and enjoyable.Love gives birth to willful and cheerful submission.Where there is love and submission is missing, and where there is submission and love is missing, the result is that the other becomes a burden and a uneasy yoke.

I do not desire power, but rather to submit to the will of Elamm’.