Quotes About Submission

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'

He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

We need to make sure our activities and our attitudes line up with what pleases God first and foremost. Wherever we focus our attention the most will become the driving force in our lives.

The wisdom of the world, while in many cases very valuable, is most valuable when it humbly bows to the wisdom of God.

Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.

Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.

We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.

It must be God first, God second, and God third

I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

I want to so live that God doesn't have to have to give me one minute's

Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.

Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.

Living God's way means putting away your self-centeredness and committing yourself to follow God's Word in spite of any feelings to the contrary.

Don't let your feelings be a God to you.

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.