Quotes about Submission
We are humble because we know we are not the power in salvation. We are obedient because we know we possess the light.
- Mark Dever
If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.
- Mark Driscoll
God is not looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He is looking for willing vessels
- Kathryn Kuhlman
The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.
- Kathryn Kuhlman
Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.
- Edith Stein
When there's something in the Word of God that I don't like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it's with me.
- RC Sproul
To submit to anyone less than Christ is difficult in a marriage. Yet it is Christ who commands women to be submissive to their sinful, fallible husbands. In this sense Christ is the silent partner of the marriage. It is hard for a wife to submit when she disagrees with her husband. But when she knows her submission is an act of obedience to Christ and honors Christ, it is much less difficult.
- RC Sproul
When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
- Amy Carmichael
Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.
- AW Tozer
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
- Bishop TD Jakes
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
- Martin Luther
A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.
- Martin Luther