Quotes about Submission

True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts.

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.

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.

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."

If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.

Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

It pleases our heavenly Father when we acknowledge and confess to Him our inability to run our own lives. That is what we are doing when we say, "Father, help me! I need You!"

Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.