Quotes about Submission
The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
- John Stott
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
- Eugene Peterson
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
- RC Sproul
Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.
- Henry Blackaby
God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.
- JD Greear
Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.
- William Barclay
Prayer is continual abandonment to God.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.
- Charles Spurgeon
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.
- AW Pink
Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God
- Mother Teresa
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
- Martin Luther