Quotes About Submission

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

Obedience is the road to freedom.

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

Obedience is the path to freedom.

Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all."[77]

The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else.

I threw in the obligatory "if it be Your will" at the end. That tagline may sound spiritual, but it was less a submission to God's will and more a profession of doubt. If you aren't careful, the will of God can become a cop-out if things don't turn out the way you want.

Prayer must be in alignment with the will of God or it's null and void... It it's not God's will, you're not going to get whatever you ask for. God loves you far too much to spoil you in that way. But if it is God's will, God will make a way.

Throwing down your staff is letting go and letting God. And that's counterintuitive for those of us who are control freaks. As our executive pastor Joel Schmidgall likes to say, "You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both." If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls.

When we take matters into our own hands, we take God out of the equation.

We want everything God has to offer without giving anything up.

Every divine appointment is preceded by a season of preparation. And if we submit to the preparation, God will fulfill His promise. If we don't, He won't. Why? Because God never sets us up to fail.

God doesn't always call us to win. Sometimes He just calls us to try. Either way, it's obedience that glorifies God.

Don't try to manufacture your own miracles. Don't try to answer your own prayers. Don't try to do God's job for Him. Stay humble. Stay patient. Stay focused. Keep circling.

Put your Isaac on the altar! Then, and only then, will you see what God can do. He cannot give back what you do not give up. But if you surrender yourself to Him, He will provide the ram in the thicket.

the purpose of prayer is not to get what you want; the goal of prayer is to discern what God wants

Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening.

We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 CORINTHIANS 10:5

Vivir sin tropezar por causa de Jesús no es ninguna experiencia al estilo Zen. Es llevar una vida sometida a su soberanía, su misterio y su amor. Jesús nos promete que seremos bienaventurados si no hallamos tropiezo en él cuando hace cosas a favor de otras personas.

Humility is how we get out of the way of what God wants to do. And if we stay out of God's way, then there is nothing God cannot do in us and through us.