Me,” he says simply.

The moment you decide there is no such thing as defeat – you will never feel defeated again, rather – you will feel challenged to find new ways to succeed. – Kasey Jean Noll –...

Acting so obviously submissive to Max around strangers, I felt a lot of humiliation. The looks from people, the comments. But I also felt this strange sense of pride. I am his possession, his property....

Resentment is often a woman’s inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility – that of making choices.

At the end of the day, when the sun falls a willing prisoner of the night…and humans, males and females alike, become submitted to the mistress of the dark, my mind begins to wander and...

It takes two to tango”; one dictates the steps and the other executes them effectively. That is how a great show is made.

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...

I had to have her, and I did. She got on her knees when I told her to. She slipped easily into play and out again, becoming her witty, intelligent self seamlessly. She wasn’t intimidated...

Each thing that obeys law [has] the glory and isolation of the anarchist,

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

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...

A writer who can’t follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane… ain’t gonna get very far!

Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make...

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the...

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

A purpose derived from a false premise – that a deity has ordained submission to his will – cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals — solving our world’s problems through rational discourse, rather...

Submissive men, men who desire to serve as consensual slaves, are on one of the most difficult journeys in the world today, because they have rejected patriarchal privilege and embraced their own heart’s calling instead.

Oh, fucking fuckery,

There are some who want to get married and others who don’t. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

We sometimes fail to realise that when we pray to Allah we are in fact performing a great act of ibadah (worship). On the surface it might seem as if we are asking out of...

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?

For the man in the street, the philosophies of opposites, particularly Good and Evil, have served as a torture chamber, a crucifix made from metaphor. Thrust into a world which views him as the property...

Some people believe that it isn’t so much power that is exchanged in TPE, as it is authority. The intrinsic difference between power and authority can best be explained thusly: If we were talking about...

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

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

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.

We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother’s clothes and flopping around in them, but he gradually builds out and grows up. Perhaps it’s a measure of our maturity...

Mortification,” she mumbled.

Being under him, trapped, objectified, I lost all fear. With Jonathan, I felt safe. I felt a loss of control so complete, a surrender so honest that it became a luxurious indulgence.

This time his voice comes from the left and I hear his footfall moving around my body as I obey. Suddenly I am all limbs, stretching out to please him. I am absurdly vulnerable and...

But then, if if sex were the same thing as math, a lot more people would be lining up to take calculus.

The craft of a master is not imposing dominance, but winning submission.

I thought to myself how we were so wrapped up in this animal act, that he couldn’t care less about his tea shop business, and I couldn’t care less about my job. That’s real sex...

Bottoming doesn’t make you a submissive any more than standing in my kitchen makes you a cook. By the way, while you’re there, please make me a sandwich.

If you’d called me an ox, I’d have said I was an ox; if you’d called me a horse, I’d have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to...

Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.

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

Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don’t. There’s just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a...

Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down below? Why does she have a veil over her face? Could it be that when we forcefully bring back...

Her sexuality wasn’t coy or cute. She wasn’t saucy; she was feral. Her very presence on the earth stirred me.

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to...

For the vile human pigs in life; the sloppy, disheveled, uncaring dregs, the ungrateful, and especially for the vicious, negative emotional peasants — there will only continue to be the hard and painful lessons you...

{Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity}I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven men in lace and petticoats who had been intoning, responding, and going through ritual gestures at...

There is a pernicious notion held by many that being a submissive means being a victim or a doormat. The so-called Fifty Shades phenomenon gives this repulsive lie some very long legs, spreading it far...

Kings can only use their best tools.

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

As a rule,I believe people shouldn’t follow rules;rules should follow people.

Yes, something like that. Might I get a refill?” He held up his empty glass.

The world you once knew is no more for you.