Quotes About Submission

A man is powerful on his knees.

We must be still before God.

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.

No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

Prayer is the chief thing that man may present unto God.

Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

Obedience is the opener of eyes.

The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs but to invite Him to rule our lives.

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray pray thyself in me.

Non-praying is lawlessness discord anarchy.

I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me.

Take my will and make it Thine It shall be no longer mine Take my heart it is Thine own It shall be Thy royal throne.