Quotes about Submission

A woman who wants to be the head of her home invites the Devil to take over her family. And the Devil has taken over many homes because the wife has refused to submit to the legitimate, biblical authority of her husband. The result is spiritual sickness and dysfunction.

It's really better if you let God take charge. I find that when I try to be in control, I lose control.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

A lack of this complete submission to the will of God, and a failure to realize that our salvation can only be worked out by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit forming the very life of Christ within the redeemed heart, has placed the Christian church today in the same apostasy that characterized the Jewish nation.

It is easier to command a lapdog or a mule for a whole day than one's own fate for half-an-hour.

His leading is only for those who are already committed to do as He may choose. To such it may be said: "God is able to speak loud enough to make a willing soul hear.

We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.

In active obedience, we worship God by doing what pleases God; but by passive obedience, we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.

Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.

It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does.

Self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey