Quotes About Submission

Whoever is humble to men for God's sake, may God exalt his eminence.

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God

It's not my perfect performance that captures God's attention. It's my complete dependence on Him that He notices.

Colossians 1:16 tells us that everything was created FOR God... don't we live instead as though God is created for US, to do OUR bidding, to bless US, and to take care of OUR loved ones?

Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No."

Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.

Few souls understand what God would effect in them if they should give themselves entirely into his hands and allow his grace to act.

Be ever more obedient to God and He will save you.

This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al

God's Will is what we would choose if we knew what God knows.

Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.

God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.

Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.

Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . .

We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will?