Quotes about Submission
The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer
- Catherine Marshall
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.
- Aldous Huxley
Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.
- Scot McKnight
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
- Hudson Taylor
A man is powerful on his knees.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
- Phillips Brooks
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
- AW Tozer
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
- Victor Hugo
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
- St. Augustine
Some of the qualities of # God must be merged into us before our # prayers can be fit for His acceptance.
- Oswald Chambers
We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
- Oswald Chambers
Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
- AW Tozer