Quotes about Submission
Before we can pray, 'Thy Kingdom come,' we must be willing to pray—'My kingdom go!
- David Jeremiah
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.
- David Jeremiah
Prayer is the only way to maintain a constant state of dependence on God.
- David Jeremiah
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.
- David Jeremiah
Your will, not mine, O Lord.
- David Jeremiah
Therefore submit to God.… Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. (James 4:7—8)
- David Jeremiah
It's abnormal for any man to have a leader other than God and Christ.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!
- Horatius Bonar
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?
- Colleen Coble
Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.
- Corrie Ten Boom
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.
- Craig Groeschel
In the end the women of Christmas quietly stepped aside, making room for the One who truly matters.
- Liz Curtis Higgs