Quotes About Submission

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you are led by a halter.

I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful.

God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.

The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, freely submitting to, and taking delight in God's wise, and fatherly disposal in every condition.

The truth is, it is more obedience to submit to God in a low calling than to submit to Him in a higher calling. For it is sheer obedience, mere obedience, that makes you go on in a low calling; but there may be much self-love that makes men go on in a higher calling. For there are riches, credit, and account in the world; and rewards come in by that, which do not in the other.

This is how you honour God, that you can turn this way or that way, as God calls you to it.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wide and fatherly disposition in every condition.

God wants us to walk in obedience—not victory. Obedience is oriented toward God; victory is oriented toward self.

We are to humble ourselves under God's mighty hand, approaching every relationship and every circumstance in reference to Him.

We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.

Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

Yet, I acknowledge it often seems more difficult to trust God than to obey Him.

God's government is perfect and just. His moral law is "holy, righteous and good" (Romans 7:12). No one ever has a valid reason to rebel against the government of God. We rebel for only one reason: We were born rebellious. We were born with a perverse inclination to go our own way, to set up our own internal government rather than submit to God.

we reduce God's control over our lives to a stop-and-go, in-and-out proposition.

Under God, however, all things are without exception fully controlled—despite all appearances to the contrary.

when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God

Your promotion, or lack of it, is in the hand of God. Your superiors are simply His agents to carry out His will.

How futile and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what God is doing in a particular event or circumstance.

It is not the importance of the thing, but the majesty of the Lawgiver, that is to be the standard of obedience. ~Andrew Bonar~

There is no authority except that which God has established.