submission

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.

C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a "realization," "a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations" _ a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.

Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.

God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it__ not necessary for them to be good, it__ essential for them to appear good.

He was the journey she wanted to take. The landscape she wanted to walk. There wasn__ a part of him she didn__ want to roam.

You__e my master. And I am only here to serve you. That__ what I understand. And to be honest, I don__ think there__ anything else to know.

With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a "spiritualized" form of situational ethics and a "Christianly submissive" statism.

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__ 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__t had been a response. Oh fuck he had to kiss her. His whole body was screaming for her now.

I'm silenced by his right hand cupping my chin and ear, his left hand flattening against my ribs as he gently pushes me back against the wall. I can feel the brick pressing into my naked upper back, cold and rough. His kiss is slow, tender...firm. His lips are warm, tongue smooth and flat, filling my mouth...I can't even feel my own tongue...taking my breath away with his.

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.

The becoming attitude for us to take is that of godly fear, implicit obedience, and unreserved resignation and submission. But not only so: the recognition of the sovereignty of God, and the realization that the Sovereign Himself is my Father, ought to overwhelm the heart and cause me to bow before Him in adoring worship. At all times I must say __ven so, Father, for so it seemeth good in Thy sight.

He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?

You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.

God is Love but He also is the Lawgiver

The hardest and greatest thing a human being can do is submit to his Creator.

Now how does all this relate to Islamic jihad? Islam sees violence as a means of propagating the Muslim faith. Islam divides the world into two camps: the dar al-Islam (House of Submission) and the dar al-harb (House of War). The former are those lands which have been brought into submission to Islam; the latter are those nations which have not yet been brought into submission. This is how Islam actually views the world!By contrast, the conquest of Canaan represented God__ just judgement upon those peoples. The purpose was not at all to get them to convert to Judaism! War was not being used as an instrument of propagating the Jewish faith. Moreover, the slaughter of the Canaanites represented an unusual historical circumstance, not a regular means of behavior.The problem with Islam, then, is not that it has got the wrong moral theory; it__ that it has got the wrong God. If the Muslim thinks that our moral duties are constituted by God__ commands, then I agree with him. But Muslims and Christians differ radically over God__ nature. Muslims believe that God loves only Muslims. Allah has no love for unbelievers and sinners. Therefore, they can be killed indiscriminately. Moreover, in Islam God__ omnipotence trumps everything, even His own nature. He is therefore utterly arbitrary in His dealing with mankind.

The world you once knew is no more for you.