Quotes About Submission

Sin causes us to want our own way, to want sovereignty over things we weren't designed to control, and to want to coerce others into the service of our agenda.

Faith means you take God at his word, you never let yourself think that you're smarter than him, and you live inside his boundaries.

Sadly, rather than growing in a sense of need for and submission to the authority that God has placed in their lives, many children become emotional weathermen. They have come to understand that the rules of the house tend to change with the emotion of the parent who is present.

Prayer is abandoning your place in the center of your world and daily surrendering that place to God alone as an act of heartfelt worship.

It is more natural for your children to deny God's existence than it is for them to humbly recognize it and submit to his holy demands on their

Awelessness that leads me to question God's power and character will cause me to take my life into my own hands, and because I have taken my life into my own hands, I will rebel against what God calls me to

I have been freed, not from God's rule, but from my bondage to me.

You can't keep the second Great Commandment unless you are first keeping the first. Only in bowing before God and submitting to his desires can we really turn to one another in peace and love. Any agenda for change that forgets this vertical causality will prove temporary and cosmetic.

As parents we need to be rescued from our addiction to the law of our comfort, pleasure, success, and control. It's not our children's sin that is in the way of good parenting; it's our tendency to make parenting about our little kingdom of wants, needs, and desires, and our tendency to want our children to serve the purposes of our kingdom rather than submit to the purposes of God's kingdom.

Our goal is to help one another live with a "God's story" mentality. Our mission is to teach, admonish, and encourage one another to rest in his sovereignty, rather than establishing our own; to rely on his grace rather than performing on our own; and to submit to his glory rather than seeking our own.

Only powerful, rescuing grace can take you from "Let me do what I want to do" to "Guard me against the temptation to do what you know is best for me not to do.

Your King rules over everything that would discourage and disappoint you, and he rules for your good and his glory. What is out of your control is under his rule.

May your kingdom so rule my heart that stepping over your boundaries would no longer be attractive to me.

Todo deseo humano debe sostenerse en sumisión a un propósito mayor, los deseos de Dios para Su reino.

Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

True Christianity is always a matter of the submission of the heart to God, something that only rescuing grace can produce.

Your children must learn early that they have been born into a world of authority, and they're not it.

If rules and regulations had the power to change the heart and life of your child, rescuing your child from himself and giving him a heart of submission and faith, Jesus would have never needed to come!

He placed himself under broken and unjust human rule in order to liberate us from self-rule and transform us into people who celebrate and willingly submit to his rule.

whenever you ask creation to do what only the Creator can do, you are on your way to addiction.

You've been born into a world of authority, and it is not you.

You didn't do it, and the sooner you understand that, the better it will be for you and your marriage. You couldn't have done it. You're simply not that powerful and not that wise. You and I like to think that it was all our initiative, but it wasn't. When you face the fact that your marital story is all about the wisdom and will of Another, your understanding of marriage completely changes forever.

It takes grace for me to acknowledge that there is a King and that he is not me.

It contradicts our normal thinking, but the doorway to freedom is submission. When I acknowledge that I am a danger to myself and submit to the authority, wisdom, and grace of God, I am not killing any hope I have for freedom. The opposite is true.