Submission Quotes

• Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

  Myles Munroe

  Giving Up, Way, Surrender

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.65, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

  William P. Young

  Relationship, Love And Respect, Obedience

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• True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Strength, Lying

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

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• The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.

  Alan Redpath

  Christian, Essence, Arrogance

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• When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.

  William Hendriksen

  Heart, Humility, Grace

  William Hendriksen (1953). “New Testament Commentary: Philippians”

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• We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.

  R. C. Sproul

  Servant

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• Divine direction begins with unconditional submission.

  Andy Stanley

  Divine, Unconditional

  Andy Stanley (2011). “The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be”, p.89, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence.

  Elif Safak

  Mean, Essence, Opposites

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• The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Men, Mind

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• God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Logical Reasoning, Understood, Logical

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• Our submission defines our authority

  Bradley Cooper

  Authority

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• Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

  Dan Barker

  Love, Dream, Kindness

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.88, Ulysses Press

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• Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple: Love God more than anything else. More than your ego. More than your money. More than your desires...More than your sleep at dawn. Love God more than anything else, and submission comes natural.
  Love God more than anything else, and all goodness will follow.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, God, Money

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• Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Discipline, Obedience

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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• No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

  T. D. Jakes

  Love, Women, Submission To God

  T. D. Jakes (2007). “T.D. Jakes Speaks to Men, 3-in-1”, p.505, Baker Books

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• I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.

  Jasper Fforde

  Love, Friendship, Giving Up

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• Somebody is waiting on the other side of your obedience.

  Tim Storey

  Religious, Jesus, Entrepreneur

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• Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Heart, Action, Worthless

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.40, Image

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• The spirit of submission is choosing His way over ours for His sake.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Sake, Way, Spirit

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• Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Perfect, Patient, Crosses

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• It was that surrender he needed. That complete feminine submission to every stroke, every caress, ever naughty act. Only in that submission would the subconscious trust, the bond he needed between them, come. He wanted her to trust, to know, to instinctively understand that he was more than just her lover; he was her other half. The one she told her secrets to. The one, she made secrets with.

  Lora Leigh

  Naughty, Secret, Half

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• The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Leadership, Responsibility, Psychology

  Stanley Milgram (2017). “Obedience to Authority”, p.8, HarperCollins

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• And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of out way to God, in supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our joy, the secret of tranquillity will be ours.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Blessed, Past, Expectations

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

  Anais Nin

  Sisterhood, Want, Empowering Women

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