Quotes about Submission

Sadly, rather than growing in a sense of need for and submission to the authority that God has placed in their lives, many children become emotional weathermen. They have come to understand that the rules of the house tend to change with the emotion of the parent who is present.

Prayer is abandoning your place in the center of your world and daily surrendering that place to God alone as an act of heartfelt worship.

So rest is never found in the quest to understand it all. No, rest is found in trusting the One who understands it all and rules it all for his glory and our good.

It is more natural for your children to deny God's existence than it is for them to humbly recognize it and submit to his holy demands on their

Awelessness that leads me to question God's power and character will cause me to take my life into my own hands, and because I have taken my life into my own hands, I will rebel against what God calls me to

If you believe in God and his control over everything that exists, then you have to accept that all of your grumbling is ultimately grumbling against him.

I have been freed, not from God's rule, but from my bondage to me.

You can't keep the second Great Commandment unless you are first keeping the first. Only in bowing before God and submitting to his desires can we really turn to one another in peace and love. Any agenda for change that forgets this vertical causality will prove temporary and cosmetic.

As parents we need to be rescued from our addiction to the law of our comfort, pleasure, success, and control. It's not our children's sin that is in the way of good parenting; it's our tendency to make parenting about our little kingdom of wants, needs, and desires, and our tendency to want our children to serve the purposes of our kingdom rather than submit to the purposes of God's kingdom.

Our goal is to help one another live with a "God's story" mentality. Our mission is to teach, admonish, and encourage one another to rest in his sovereignty, rather than establishing our own; to rely on his grace rather than performing on our own; and to submit to his glory rather than seeking our own.

Only powerful, rescuing grace can take you from "Let me do what I want to do" to "Guard me against the temptation to do what you know is best for me not to do.

Your King rules over everything that would discourage and disappoint you, and he rules for your good and his glory. What is out of your control is under his rule.