Quotes about Submission

Before we can pray, 'Thy Kingdom come,' we must be willing to pray—'My kingdom go!

Question the ways of the almighty God? To face God is to be humbled. With humility comes wisdom; with wisdom comes the strength to wait upon the Lord.

Prayer is the only way to maintain a constant state of dependence on God.

According to all that God commanded [Noah], so he did. Noah did "according to all that God commanded him, so he did" (Genesis 6:22). Therein lies the key and secret to Noah's faith. When God told him to do something, he did it. He was a man who took God at His word.

Your will, not mine, O Lord.

Therefore submit to God.… Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. (James 4:7—8)

It's abnormal for any man to have a leader other than God and Christ.

Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!

God isn't like a genie in a bottle who will do whatever we ask. Prayer is about talking with God, getting to know him, learning to love the things he loves. He's preparing us to be fit citizens for the kingdom to come, and his goal isn't to give us everything we want in this world. Don't you want whatever God knows is best?

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

The road to committed faith is paved with personal abandonment and self-denial. Life ceases to be about us, and it begins to be all about God.

In the end the women of Christmas quietly stepped aside, making room for the One who truly matters.