Quotes about Submission

The freedom to do only what God wants, and accept whatever God sends us.

Your ability to control your thoughts—treat it with respect. It's all that protects your mind from false perceptions—false to your nature, and that of all rational beings. It's what makes thoughtfulness possible, and affection for other people, and submission to the divine.

Give what thou wilt, and take away what thou wilt, saith he that is well taught and truly modest, to Him that gives, and takes away. And it is not out of a stout and peremptory resolution, that he saith it, but in mere love, and humble submission.

To holiness, in accepting willingly whatsoever is sent by the Divine Providence

Willingly therefore, and wholly surrender up thyself unto that fatal concatenation, yielding up thyself unto the fates, to be disposed of at their pleasure.

There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.

I wanted to ask why it had to be like this, but I already knew the answer: because it was God's plan. That was how the Aunts got out of everything

I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.

Every time you and I bow our heads in surrender to the will of God, we embrace the cross and we manifest to the world the heart of Christ who bowed His head to the will of His Father.

Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5—6 NIV