Quotes about Subdue
Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”
— Numbers 24:24
But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.
— Deuteronomy 9:3
God can make your enemies your footstool.
— Joel Osteen
And the ten horns are ten kings who will rise from this kingdom. After them another king, different from the earlier ones, will rise and subdue three kings.
— Daniel 7:24
He subdues nations beneath us, and peoples under our feet.
— Psalm 47:3
The noble calling to rule and subdue the earth in God's name was perverted, as male and female tried to rule and subdue each other.
— Carolyn Custis James
the God who avenges me and subdues nations beneath me,
— Psalm 18:47
God's image bearers were divided, and the battle of the sexes commenced. Instead of ruling and subduing the earth, they turned against one another and sought to rule and subdue each other.
— Carolyn Custis James
subdue it at all.° Then you saw the damsel sprinkle the room with water, after which it was pleasingly cleansed. This is to show you the way in which the gospel comes into the heart with its sweet and precious influences. You saw the damsel clear the dust from the room by sprinkling the floor with water. This shows how sin is vanquished and subdued and the soul made clean through faith and consequently fit for the King of glory to inhabit.
— John Bunyan
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
— Edmund Burke
Adam and Eve were placed in the garden with a mission. God said, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it" (Gen. 1:28). It was God's intention that as they bore more children, who also lived under God's rule, they would be extending the boundaries of His garden (His government) through the simplicity of their devotion to Him.
— Bill Johnson
how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!
— Psalm 81:14