Quotes About Submission

Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.

Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God.

Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.

Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer

A church that likes power likes prayer.

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.