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.

God, she was one big nerve ending, that girl, and those big brown eyes got just a little wider when she was close. And those bruises. And how she begged for them.I knew she was...

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.

This is how you will remember that you are mine. Every painful touch, everyaching hug, will remind you – that you are a slave – to me.

Submit to your pain; don’t suppress your pain.

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority...

Make no mistake about it, a perfect storm is forming, and it’s coming our way. Its sudden onset and fierce intensity will surprise even its most vocal proponents and cheerleaders. Many people who are now...

Being submissive is not being oppressed.

I was not merely cleaning an oven; I was improving the world.

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not...

There’s something sexy about a naked woman gritting her teeth in pain, even when it shouldn’t be sexy.

Then Hwin, though shaking all over, gave a strange little neigh and trotted across to the Lion. “Please,” she said, “you’re so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I’d sooner be eaten by...

Prayer is actually setting out a tuning fork. All you can really do in the spiritual life is to get tuned to receive the always present message. Once you are tuned, you will receive, and...

I wanted to let my conscience go, and see how deep I fall.I wanted to let the devil take over, and see if I survive.I love you, Mriga. And for you, I will die.Tonight.

Even so, Father, for so it seemeth good in Thy sight.

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

The Warrior Princess Submissive is – at least in my humble opinion – quite possibly destined to be the hope and salvation of the D/s lifestyle from an ever-increasing wave of attacks by a small...

The level of our submission to God will determine our success and prosperity.

What was the point in satin and lace if it didn’t make a man struggle to speak?

Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul and body)

Those girls in the magazines are airbrushed and way too thin. The camera adds pounds so those girls are so skinny I wouldn’t be able to fuck them for fear I would break them. I...

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

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, ‘Some animals are more equal than others’—that he embedded in our language and...