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Quotes About Submission

Do not want things to turn out as they seem best to you but as God pleases. Then you will be free from confusion and thankful in prayer.
~ The Desert Fathers
O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Before we can pray "Lord Thy Kingdom come " we must be willing to pray "My Kingdom go."
~ Alan Redpath
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.
~ Oswald Chambers
God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them correct them bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.
~ Stephen Crotts
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
~ Oswald Chambers
The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields.
~ Robert Hall
Man is the only creature which rises by bowing for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.
~ Anonymous
You are the Master, the mind is your servant. That is the correct relationship.
~ Mooji
Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
~ William Penn
When the lion fawns upon the lamb,The lamb will never cease to follow him.
~ William Shakespeare
Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key,With bated breath, and whispering humbleness,Say this.
~ William Shakespeare
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
~ William Shakespeare
Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.
~ William Steig
There is no room for pride before the Lord, however high and privileged our service of Him may be.
~ William Still
Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose--all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.
~ William Temple
As you open up your life to the Spirit's control, you do not get more of the Spirit, but He gets more of you.
~ William Thrasher
Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. Not content with having all Europe under his heel, or else terrorized into various forms of abject submission, he must now carry his work of butchery and desolation among the vast multitudes of Russia and of Asia…. So now this bloodthirsty guttersnipe must launch his mechanized armies upon new fields of slaughter, pillage and devastation.
~ Winston Churchill
La adoración genuina equivale a reconocer nuestras limitaciones y reconocer que Dios no tiene limitaciones. Debemos postrarnos delante de Él; Él nos sobrepasa en todo.
~ Witness Lee
He had no sin or oldness, yet He was still baptized. His baptism was a testimony to the universe that He rejected Himself, that He put Himself aside in order to live by God.
~ Witness Lee
The brass means, "Not I," and the lily means, "But Christ.
~ Witness Lee
Lord, I contact You in Your way. I don't contact You by my thought, concept, or knowledge. Lord, You are my way.
~ Witness Lee
The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life.
~ Witness Lee