Quotes About Submission

We cannot be filled with the Spirit until we are prepared to yield ourselves to be led by the Lord Jesus—to forsake and sacrifice everything for this pearl of great price.

Dear friends, maybe you have never sincerely said it because you never thought it was needed; but say it now if you mean it. "Oh Christ, let me be filled with the Holy Spirit. I will give up anything and everything. Accept my surrender of all to You!

If I bear the name of another, I have given up my own name and my own independent life.

Humiliation is the only ladder to honor in God's kingdom.

lead me to cast away my thoughts of what I think I know, and make me kneel before Thee in true teachableness and poverty of spirit.

Do believe that when He takes charge of you in Christ, it is possible for God to make you a man of absolute surrender. And God is able to maintain that. He is able to let you rise from bed every morning of the week with that blessed thought directly or indirectly: "I am in God's charge. My God is working out my life for me.

And the Christian life has suffered loss, where believers have not been distinctly guided to see that, even in our relation as creatures, nothing is more natural and beautiful and blessed than to be nothing, that God may be all;

Jesus gave up His life to God, and by this He taught us that the only thing that life is worth living for is to give it back to God, even unto death.

us to obey it, how indispensable the experience of its blessing is to a healthy Christian life, and

we surrender ourselves, and accept in faith the whole

and how the wholehearted surrender to abide in Him

A closer look at the word meek: The Greeks called their horses praüs, or meek. When the horse got to the level of training where it would obey the master (the rider) no matter what was going on, it could be trusted in the heat of battle not to do something stupid or foolish. Once the rider knew that he could trust the animal, and it would obey him no matter what, he called it a meek horse even though it might be a powerful, thoroughbred stallion, capable of killing enemies in the battle.

Abiding in the Vine then comes to be nothing more or less than the restful surrender of the soul to let Christ have all and work all

Faith is obedience at home and looking to the Master; obedience is faith going out to do His will.

The one true way of dying to self is the way of patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God.

The lower and the emptier a man lays himself before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of divine glory.

Let's yield ourselves to take up the appointment the Savior gives us. Let's concentrate on His relationship to us as Master and no longer start each new day with thoughts of comfort, or joy, or blessing. Let the first thought be: I belong to the Master.

nothing can save us but the restoration of our lost humility, the original and only true relationship of the creature to its God.

Humility is not so much a virtue along with the others, but is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God and allows Him, as God, to do all. God

A vessel must be empty if it is to be filled, and if we are to be filled with the life of God we must be utterly empty of self.

Master reverses

Do not serve God half-heartedly. Pray that the Holy Spirit will lead you to the wonder of a life wholly surrendered to God's service.

It is often spiritual laziness that, under the appearance of humility, professes to have no will, because it fears the trouble of searching out the will of God, or when found, the struggle of claiming it in faith.

In Your death I would live daily; in Your life I would die daily.