Quotes About Submission

when God says to do or not do some physical thing with our bodies, it is important that we pay heed because this is one of His ways of dealing with us in a total fashion. It shows a very superficial understanding of human existence to say, "Well, what matters is my heart attitude, not the posture of my body.

The Christian is never to be motivated by a sense of his own honor, but rather by the honor of Christ. If pride was Satan's original sin, humility and patient faith are the Christian's primary duty. The Christian casts his own honor in the dust so that God may be honored, knowing that God and God alone can give him true honor. The Christian, thus, lives by obedience and submission, not by pride and honor and nobility.

Lord, I think I made a mess of things. So I am placing the whole situation in your hands. Do with it what you will." Our

A servant does what his massa says and goes where his massa sends him and doesn't quit until the job is done.

but he knew that Hashem revealed His will through His Word. The way to find answers was through obedience to that Word.

Submission is 'ducking low enough so God can touch your husband.

Obedience is the daily practice of trusting God.

If our souls never ached with disappointments and disillusionments, we'd never fully admit and submit to our need for God. If we weren't ever shattered we'd never know the glorious touch of the Potter making something glorious out of dust, out of us.

The only true satisfaction we can seek is the satisfaction of being obedient to the Lord.

our job is to be obedient to God. God's job is everything else.

And I know I can't continue to fully embrace God while rejecting His ways.

doesn't it all come down to that? Trust. Trading our will for "Thy will," because we know He will.

growing closer to God has a whole lot less to do with any action we might take and a whole lot more to do with positioning our hearts toward His.

The posture is the lowest possible position in which we can put ourselves with empty hands and eager hearts.

I'm not gentle by nature, but I can be gentle by obedience. I'm not patient by nature, but I can be patient by obedience. I'm not peaceful by nature, but I can be peaceful by obedience.

An interesting fact about the Garden of Gethsemane is that it sits at the base of a known escape route from the city over the Mount of Olives toward the Judean desert. This is the route David took when running from his son Absalom. Jesus would have known this. But instead of running, He turned to His Father and said nine hell-shattering, demon-shaking, Devil-killing words: "Yet not what I will, but what you will" (Mark 14:36).

My job is to be obedient to God, to apply His Word, and to walk according to His ways — not according to the world's suggestions.

I'm always asking God for direction, but I'll miss it if I constantly ignore His instruction. (11)

Trust. Trading our will for "Thy will," because we know He will.

And it's the one thing Jesus is asking of the rich ruler. Not for a life lived perfectly, but a heart of perfect surrender.

A Máquina era que matava os homens porém os homens é que mandavam na Máquina...

We must, however, urge it as a matter of the highest import, to cease from self-action and self-exertion, that God himself may act alone: He saith by the mouth of his prophet David: "Be still and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10). But the creature is so infatuated with a love and attachment to its own workings, that it imagines nothing at all is done if it does not perceive and distinguish all its operations.

do what the government demanded because they could no longer conceive of an alternative.

Every moment of my peace was a lie, for it came only at the gods' pleasure. No matter what I did, how long I lived, at a whim they would be able to reach down and do with me what they wished.