Quotes about Submission

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will not the other way around.

O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.

Before we can pray "Lord Thy Kingdom come " we must be willing to pray "My Kingdom go."

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

Man is the only creature which rises by bowing for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.

Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose--all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

I pray, and I obey.