Quotes about Submission

If Christ is the head of his body—and he is—then everything else is just body. The most influential pastor or ministry leader is a member of the body of Christ and therefore needs what the other members of the body need.

Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

One of the dark delusions of sin is that it causes us at points to buy into the insane thought that we might be smarter than God.

True Christianity is always a matter of the submission of the heart to God, something that only rescuing grace can produce.

Your children must learn early that they have been born into a world of authority, and they're not it.

If rules and regulations had the power to change the heart and life of your child, rescuing your child from himself and giving him a heart of submission and faith, Jesus would have never needed to come!

He placed himself under broken and unjust human rule in order to liberate us from self-rule and transform us into people who celebrate and willingly submit to his rule.

whenever you ask creation to do what only the Creator can do, you are on your way to addiction.

You've been born into a world of authority, and it is not you.

You didn't do it, and the sooner you understand that, the better it will be for you and your marriage. You couldn't have done it. You're simply not that powerful and not that wise. You and I like to think that it was all our initiative, but it wasn't. When you face the fact that your marital story is all about the wisdom and will of Another, your understanding of marriage completely changes forever.

It takes grace for me to acknowledge that there is a King and that he is not me.

It contradicts our normal thinking, but the doorway to freedom is submission. When I acknowledge that I am a danger to myself and submit to the authority, wisdom, and grace of God, I am not killing any hope I have for freedom. The opposite is true.