Quotes About Submission

Cruelty impresses, people want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that. They need something to dreed.

I do not come to God so that Jesus can give me what I want. But I must come to God so that Jesus will grant me what I need.

Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

God has a right to interrupt your life. He is Lord. When you accepted Him as Lord, you gave Him the right to help Himself to your life anytime He wants.

Iblis (satan) himself recognizes the Lordship of Allah, but wants the human being to forget it

You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

Jesus wants us to love Him in a way that gives Him full leadership over our lives.

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.

Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most. Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.

God asks today's Christian wives this question: "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord' and not do what I say?" (Luke 6:46). As

When ministers wield absolute authority, everyone loses, even God.

Before you can stand up straight before another person, you have to fall on your knees before God.

When we finally decide to submit our life and our will to God's direction, our burdens will become manageable. When we let him do the driving, we will "find rest" for our soul. He knows the way and has the strength to turn us around and get us on the road toward recovery.

7So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

De Caussade nails this point: "This work in our souls cannot be accomplished by cleverness, intelligence, or any subtlety of mind, but only by completely abandoning ourselves to the divine action, becoming like metal poured into a mold

de Caussade, Abandonment

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.

We would all worship better, sing better, fellowship better, give better, evangelize better, share better, and behave much better if we were first humbling ourselves, confessing our sins, asking God's Spirit to fill us, and submitting ourselves to Him in prayer.

Your ways are higher than my ways. What I really want, Lord, is that You receive glory from my life. Maximum glory. The full weight of Your glory. Work in my heart and in each of my situations, Lord, so that You are most glorified. In Jesus' name, amen.

Lordship is when "What does the Lord want?" trumps, "What do I want?

I in obedience to Thy will Thou knowest did submit. It was my duty so to do; O Lord, accept of it.