Quotes about Submission

We crave autonomy. Autonomy is closely linked to arrogance. They are both expressions of human pride, but autonomy suggests that we want to be separate from more than over. We want to establish the rules rather than submit to the lordship of the living God. This was the essence of Adam's original sin. We want to interpret the world according to our system of thought. We want to establish our own parallel universe, separate from God's.

Life in the kingdom isn't easy, at least not when we want to share the throne.

Anger is against God because he is the one who directs the details of our lives. In fact, in our anger and outrage, we have decided that we want to be God rather than submit to him.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

No matter who we are, God does not adapt to please us; we always have to adapt to him.

When I looked very closely to the Bible and to Jesus, this Christ who came, I discovered something awesome. I discovered that when He's first, then He places me in a second position that's above the class that I was given by other men.

God can do all sorts of things, God does not need me! But He commands me to be like His Son, and that is all.

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple.

Till you can rest in God's will you will never have rest.

It is one thing to believe in God's power, it is quite another to live your life in obedient response to an all-powerful God.

To move from your way of thinking or acting to God's way of thinking or acting will require fundamental adjustments.

Thomas Merton who said: "The will of God is not a 'fate' to which we must submit, but a creative act in our life that produces something absolutely new, something hitherto unforeseen by the laws and established patterns. Our cooperation consists not solely in conforming to external laws, but in opening our wills to this mutually creative act."5