Quotes about Submission

The love of the bible will show itself in a believer's readiness to bear evil as well as to do good. It will make him patient under provocation, forgiving when injured, meek when unjustly attacked, quiet when slandered. It will make him hear much, put up with much and look over much, submit often and deny himself often, all for the sake of peace.

nothing will ever allow them to find rest except submission to the old doctrines of man's ruin and Christ's redemption — and simple childlike faith in Jesus.

Pray that in the large things and small things, whenever He asks me to "give it up for Him," no matter what He asks of me, I will respond immediately, "Yes, Lord!

Yahweh doesn't owe us an explanation for what He does. He's sovereign over all: 'Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths of the grave—what can you know?... If he comes along and confines you in prison... who can oppose him?' So you see? I don't need to know why anymore.

A servant does what his massa says and goes where his massa sends him and doesn't quit until the job is done.

but he knew that Hashem revealed His will through His Word. The way to find answers was through obedience to that Word.

Submission is 'ducking low enough so God can touch your husband.

If we let it, unglued will allow us to become humbly and beautifully broken before Him.

Obedience is the daily practice of trusting God.

If our souls never ached with disappointments and disillusionments, we'd never fully admit and submit to our need for God. If we weren't ever shattered we'd never know the glorious touch of the Potter making something glorious out of dust, out of us.

The only true satisfaction we can seek is the satisfaction of being obedient to the Lord.

And I know I can't continue to fully embrace God while rejecting His ways.