Submission

Two types of submission:

Submission to a superior force

Submission to a superior Truth

The former is weakness

The latter is strength

The former is extolled by nearly all schools of proper religious training

as constituting the highest degree of human attainment,

being pressed so far as to make the doctrine of submission
 an instrument of oppression,

a source of weakness

and a bar to progress.

True beauty consists in
the power to confer strength
power not to be acquired by submission
but by the exactly opposite method
of continually asserting our determination
not to submit.

Submissionists take for granted that all
sorrow, pain, trouble, and other adversity
in the world
is the expression of the will of God
and comforting themselves with the vague hope that somehow
in some far-off future
we shall find that
"Good is the final goal of ill"
even though this vague hope
is a protest against he very submission
they are endeavoring to exercise. 

But to make the assumption that
the evil of life is the will of God
is to assume what a careful and intelligent
study of the laws of the universe
both mental and physical
will show us is not the truth;
that submission to the evils of life
is not submission to the will of God.

Credit: 

Thomas Troward,

The Hidden Power