Quotes About Submission

unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity.

But we must always come back to this consolation: The Lord planned our sorrow, so let us submit to his will. Even in the throes of grief, groans, and tears, we must encourage ourselves with this reflection, so that our hearts may cheerfully bear up while the storms pass over our heads (John 21:18).

8. I have told you that it is I. Here we see how the Son of God not   only submits to death of his own accord, that by his obedience he may   blot out our transgressions, but also how he discharges the office of a   good Shepherd in protecting his flock.

The disposition of the heart is man's, but the preparation of the tongue is the Lord's." [Prov. 16:1, 9, conflated.] It is an absurd folly that miserable men take it upon themselves to act without God, when they cannot even speak except as he wills!

First of all, then, in striving for either convenience or tranquility in this present life, Scripture calls us to resign our wills and everything that is our to the Lord, and to turn the affections of our hearts over to Him to be tamed and bridled.

Therefore by the example of Abram, entire self-renunciation is   enjoined, that we may live and die to God alone.

We are not our own, therefore let us forget ourselves and our own interests as far as possible.

looked for away from him, they will never submit to him in voluntary obedience; nay, unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity.

When the Son of God chose to submit to this trial in his own person, he became an example to all believers, so that they may carefully avoid falling into Satan's snares by a wrong use of Scripture. And

We are in no position to rely upon God's promises unless we obey his commandments. Now

We should always look to the Lord, that by His care we might be led to whatever lot in life He provides for us.

Man stands under the devil's power, and indeed willingly

True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

when we recognize God as a propitious Father through the reconciliation made by Christ, and Christ as given to us for righteousness, sanctification, and life. By this knowledge, I say, not by the submission of our understanding, we obtain an entrance into the kingdom of heaven.

We do not tell God who he is and what he is like; he tells us.

Let me not therefore, O my God, be ashamed of these fears, but let me feel them to determine where his fear did, in a present submitting of all to thy will.

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

When fate summons, monarchs must obey.

We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.

It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees...the perfect position to seek God.

Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.

Obedience . . . allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord.