Quotes About Submission

I've gone and hired myself out. I've hired myself out to Death.

Thus the people, who could not bear the very name of king, readily submitted to a magistrate possessed of much greater power; so much do the names of things mislead us, and so little is any form of government irksome to the people, when it coincides with their prejudices.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

The meaning of the expression "with the Heavenly Principle as the master" is just the opposite. It means that we should abandon our self-centered wills, be free from personal opinions, be absorbed both physically and spiritually in whatever concerns us at the moment, and become completely one with things.

He makes Himself known to those who, after doing all that their powers will allow, confess that they need help from Him.

Disciples are not so much those who follow as those who must follow.

The called-out assembly of God's people, which is subordinated to Christ as its head and coordinated with its fellow members of the body, lives its life by its practical obedience to God's call in Christ.

To believe in Jesus is to bow twice and then to obey forever

My unhappiness was the unhappiness of a person who could not say no.

That one's a wife, he began, and she knows only two ways to live—either she's the husband's boss or else his toy.

That's because he's desperate to have others believe him omnipotent. Pure stupidity! The world's not like that. You've got to bow before someone to get on. That's the only way—struggle ahead one step at a time while keeping the others back.

For the first time in my life, I want to bow my head to the heavens.

Authority is quite degrading

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty power.

He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do anything He chooses.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God's will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

God is not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the purpose of God; be faithful to Him.

When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.

The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.