Quotes About Submission

No one rules if no one obeys

In 1946, Bertrand Russell, a friend of Einstein, said it was necessary to use the fear of nuclear weapons to force all nations to give up their sovereignty and submit to the dictatorship of the United Nations.11

Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

you just stay in the will of God and things will work out. If God doesn't tell you anything in particular to do, then don't do anything. Just wait on Him.

Human authorities will exercise authority rightly only if they acknowledge the authority of God over them.

I long with intense desire to move on and finish my work, I have also an excessive wish to find anything that may exist proving the visit of the great Moses and the ancient kingdom of Tirhaka, but I pray give me just what pleases Thee my Lord, and make me submissive to Thy will in all things.

God will give you anything as long as you understand that he is the primary and not the secondary.

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.

We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God's.

To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.

God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

Ask God for the grace to live for Him and continue to live in Him. Right now, surrender it all to Him.

You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.