Quotes About Submission

Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.

In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.

It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

Who are we to ask God if it is his will.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.

I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.

Christianity = me moving out, God moving in.

There is no dallying with God .

If we don't discipline ourselves, God will make certain we are disciplined by others.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord.

There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don't know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don't delay obedience.

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.

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

If you and I are to be used in our sphere as D.L. Moody was used in his, we must put all that we have and all that we are in the hands of God, for Him to use as He will.

The only reason Christ submitted himself to the horrendous experience of bearing the sins of the entire world is because his death provided the only way for reconciliation with God.

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

When we get to the end of ourselves, we get to the beginning of God.