Quotes about Submission

the import of the book was that even the king must obey the law, because the king is also under the law.

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

the first step toward the one true God is to acknowledge that we are not that God.

The main point of a prayer meeting is not to move God but to allow God to move us. The Bible says we Christians grieve, quench, and resist the Holy Spirit.[97] So, we pray to repent of our sin against him and align our will with his. The Spirit is always available to us, and in prayer we make ourselves available to him.

Three facts distinguish a steward: 1) A steward gladly acknowledges that he or she belongs to the Lord.

Hebrews 13:15—17, which says: Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

I can think of God as my savior and even my friend, but I must never forget that He is God, and after He saves me, I must put myself in subjection to Him and His will.

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience...

The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don't create it. You don't define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.