Top 1200 Submission To God Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.

The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

Wrestlers need a lesson in submission, and I’m just the one to teach them.

If I see an opening, I'll go for the submission.

I'm a guy who looks to put the pressure and come out with the knockout or the submission.

Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.

Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you - and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.

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

Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His divine perfection, our gratitude for all His mercies, our penitence for our sins, our hope in His forgiving love, our submission to His authority, our confidence in His care, our desires for His favour, and for the providential and spiritual blessings needed for ourselves and others.

Always I try one submission. If it doesn't work, the second one works.

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

Republicans in Hollywood hide. I'm challenging them to stand up and have courage. I won't be scared into submission.

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

I always say to audiences of men: "Cooperation beats submission. Trust me."

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.

Can’t you nudge her into submission? (Taryn) Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I’d fry my brain trying. (Sphinx)

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.

We always want the knockout or the submission.

Jesus was not just godly, godlike, God hungry, God focused, or God worshipping. He was God. Not merely a servant of God, instrument of God, or friend of God, but Jesus was God.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

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

The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

God is mighty. God is caring. God is worthy of praise. God is loving. God is able. God is in control. Nothing takes God by surprise. Some sweet reminders to soak in before falling asleep tonight.

It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

I love being under submission to my husband ... I believe in keeping the male ego intact.

We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

Divine direction begins with unconditional submission.

I think everybody wants a knockout or a submission.

Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags drip with mud and slime, but we are charitable here and no one will upbraid you with these things, nor draw away from you. Enter into joy? Should we not reply, With submission, sir, and if there is no objection, I'd rather be cleansed first. It may hurt, you know-even so, sir.

I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

I will always go for the submission instead of hurting my opponent.

We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won a gamble with his own conscience. Even should he think he has beaten his conscience into submission, his misdeeds still leave their mark upon him. Anyone who gambles against this fact has already lost his gamble.

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

O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

It is very much easier to work than to pray. Most of the missionaries are earnest workers. But are we all that we should be in the matter of prayer? Let us not suppose that just any sort of praying will do for China. We must all wrestle with God. 'I will not let Thee go unless Thou bless China.' It must come to this if the conversion of the Chinese is ever to be an accomplished fact. Such is my conviction. Let me remind you that the greatest importunity is not incompatible with the profoundest submission to the Divine will.

The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.

Entire civilisation stands on submission and obedience of mother.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.