Quotes about Submission
God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.
- Paul Washer
Jesus is to God as we must be to Jesus.
- William Barclay
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
- William Booth
I have received my all from God. Oh that I could return my all to God
- David Brainerd
It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.
- David Brainerd
Oh that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.
- David Brainerd
I long with intense desire to move on and finish my work, I have also an excessive wish to find anything that may exist proving the visit of the great Moses and the ancient kingdom of Tirhaka, but I pray give me just what pleases Thee my Lord, and make me submissive to Thy will in all things.
- David Livingstone
God will give you anything as long as you understand that he is the primary and not the secondary.
- Bishop TD Jakes
I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.
- CS Lewis
Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.
- Paul Washer
Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
- William James
Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.
- St. Therese of Lisieux