Quotes About Submission

Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the divine glory.

Your will be done": Let these be the most profound and most exalted words of your life, in daily submission to the will of God.

The humble man seeks at all times to act according to the rule: with honour preferring one another; by charity serve one another; esteem[ing] others better than themselves; submitting yourselves one to another.

The condition for obtaining God's full blessing is absolute surrender to Him.

Him, that I have allowed self, the flesh, and my own will to work where the Holy Spirit should have been honored! May God forgive me that I have allowed self, the flesh, and the will to actually have the place that God wanted the Holy Spirit to have.

Humility is simply the sense of entire nothingness, which comes when we see how truly God is all, and in which we make way for God to be all.

The great mistake here is that God's children do not really believe that it is possible to know God's will. Or if they believe this, they do not take the time and trouble to discover it. What we need is to see clearly how the Father leads His waiting, teachable child to know that his petition is according to His will.

Humility before God is nothing if not proved in humility before men

We want to wait on Him and put away our experiences, however blessed they have been; our concept of truth, however sound and scriptural we think it is; our plans, however needful and suitable they appear.

Oh! take time, to get very low before God.

The disciples had only to pray, believe, and yield themselves to the mighty power of Christ.

The secret of true obedience is a close and unmistakable relationship with God.

we offer ourselves as learners; we would indeed be taught of Thee. 'Lord, teach us to pray.

True humility comes when, in the, light of God, we have seen ourselves to be nothing, have consented to part with and cast away self, to let God be all.

God has priority over your time, no matter what else must be neglected. Only then will you be able to submit yourself fully to the will of God. If, from day to day, you persevere with dedication, time will no longer be a question.

And according to what we have of God will be our real humility, because humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

Would you allow other people to be masters in the home you dwell in? You never would. And yet, alas! you allow so much else to occupy the heart and have the place God alone is meant to have.

do not mind whatever He has for me to do; though my work is feeble and I sometimes feel ashamed of it, I have put myself into God's hands as an instrument for Him to use.

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

Another paragraph from Chris's journal replays in my mind: "The things that tempt me from following God daily aren't sinful things," he wrote. "They're good things—duty to my family, to my father's company, to the people at my church. But if I am going to devote myself to following God, I must be willing to leave the good things behind as I seek the best thing—total submission and obedience.

I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.

Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

submitting to the will of another requires trust and humility.

Even People of the Book must keep to themselves and "humbly" tithe (pay the jizya) to their Muslim rulers.