Quotes about Submission

Life only works when Jesus is everything and we are fully submitted to Him.

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.

It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.

Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.

Even though most people coming to a church for the first time cannot articulate this verse, they are probably thinking something similar to what James and John said to Jesus, "Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. 'Teacher, ' they said, 'we want you to do for us whatever we ask'" (Mark 10:35 NIV, emphasis added). Each week people show up telling the church, many times, "We want you to do for us whatever we ask".

God's purpose was not simply to deliver Israel from Pharoah's yoke. It was to bring them under His yoke.

If you pick 'em up, O Lord, I'll put 'em down.

Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?