Subdues Quotes

#1. He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Buddha

#2. God is preparing His Church to become an invincible, unstoppable, unconquerable, overcoming Army of the Lord that subdues everything under Christ's feet. There will be a sovereign restorational move of God to activate all that is needed for His army to be and do what He had eternally purposed.

Bill Hamon

#3. Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.

F. Sionil Jose

#4. It is on our bodies that the law must go to work, not only on our minds. Reason must govern in collusion with the senses it subdues, rather as an astute sovereign rules in a way that allows each citizen to feel that he is doing no more than obeying the diktats of his own desires.

Terry Eagleton

#5. Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations.

George Horne

#6. Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

John Henry Newman

#7. The strongest amongst you is he who subdues his self

Ali R.A

#8. There is no wine in the world as heady as applause; and it has the same effect. It temporarily subdues anxiety and restores confidence.

Khushwant Singh

#9. Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

Jose Rizal

#10. Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

Homer

#11. When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.

Mencius

#12. The quiet is funereal, air as thick and still as if it never moves; as if all sound has been smothered out, the way a blanket subdues a fire. The atmosphere has weight, and simultaneously seems a vacuum.

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

#13. He who subdues his enemy is strong;
he who wins his enemy over is wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.

David Josiah Brewer

#15. As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them.

Tikhon Of Zadonsk

#16. Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.

William Wordsworth

#17. Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

Sun Tzu

#18. The greatest gift we have ever received, and ever will or could receive, is the Spirit of God Himself. He enters the essence of our human form and changes us from within. He fills us with joy, love and peace. He subdues our passions and transforms our very being into the likeness of Christ.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#19. Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#20. From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.

Richard Wagner

#21. Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

#22. Come, everyone! Clap your hands! Shout to God with joyful praise! 2 For the LORD Most High is awesome. He is the great King of all the earth. 3 He subdues the nations before us, putting our enemies beneath our feet.

Anonymous

#23. The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

Sun Tzu

#24. He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#25. Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far - reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. ... You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.

Adelard Of Bath

#26. Love in my case is not indispensable to pleasure, nor is respect. Is it possible, therefore, that the disgust, the humiliation begin afterward, when a man subdues you and violates you at his pleasure solely because now you belong to him, love or not, respect or not?

Elena Ferrante

#27. An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism which has cast doubt on reason's ability to know the truth, which alone satisfies the human heart's restless quest for meaning.

Pope John Paul II

#28. The overall message is 'one love,' which means love begins with oneself. If you can't love yourself, you can't love anyone around you.

Simphiwe Dana

#29. I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I'm going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.

John Wooden

#30. You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

Kate Winslet

#31. He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.

John Keats

#32. I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn't stuck in one place.

N.D. Wilson

#33. God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed.

James Dobson

#34. Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

Bertrand Russell

#35. Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression.

E. O. Wilson

#36. The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

Paulo Coelho

#37. He promptly forgot all about being the hero of a coward's nightmare,

Don Carpenter

#38. I don't think the pain of a broken heart is one I will survive," I said, lying across the upstairs landing so that everybody would notice my plight.

Matthew Crow

#39. I could not live without seasons, for in seasons are reflected in the rhythms of our existence: of birth and maturity, or decline and decay, yet always with the promise of renewal for those who remain.

John Connolly

#40. Love is something that u feel inside that others can not.

Sphencer Perales