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Quotes About Submission

God was in control, and I was just pliable enough to say yes to wherever He would lead.
~ Gloria Gaynor
I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.
~ Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.
~ Henry B. Eyring
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
~ Herman Melville
This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.
~ J. D. Salinger
Their throats were bare for God.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.
~ Joanna Southcott
What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
~ Johannes Tauler
If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.
~ John Calvin
He that disobeys God, rejects his reign; and so God views it
~ John L. Dagg
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
~ John Stott
If you choose to be obedient to God, God meets you with divine enablement.
~ Johnny Hunt
God has created us to be dependent upon Him, to bring Him our challenges and allow Him to help us with them.
~ Joyce Meyer
A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.
~ Kevin Baggett
Inerrancy means the word of God always stands over us and we never stand over the word of God.
~ Kevin DeYoung
You ruin is your rebellion against God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Obedience moves the hand of the Lord.
~ Daryl Baugh
Waiting taught me, I can't have it in my way. But in God's way.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.
~ Sarah Sundin, A Distant Melody
The only way Jesus can be our King is if we allow Him to be our Servant
~ Stuart Greaves
To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)
~ Brandon Sanderson, Elantris
We must submit to God's righteous rule.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It is only through faith that you will receive the patience, obedience, and humility to be submissive
~ Sunday Adelaja
Many men but one Master.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita