Quotes about Submission

What pleases the LORD more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obedience to his voice? It is better to obey than to sacrifice.

A. W. Tozer said, "The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.

You have to trust God even when you don't get what you want.

God doesn't owe you an explanation or reason for everything he asks you to do. Understanding can wait, but obedience can't. Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions. In fact, you will never understand some commands until you obey them first. Obedience unlocks understanding.

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter's vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him.