Quotes about Submission

With their ever-available loving hearts, they bow before God and bend down under all this pain and are lower than all the other creatures on earth. Pride is rare among them.3 Mechthild of Magdeburg, "The Flowing Light of the Godhead

And we can pray only when we realize that we cannot do anything, that we have reached our limit, that someone else must make that new beginning.

What does it mean to love God? Loving God means giving him everything that belongs to me; it means wishing nothing for myself; it means asking his will before everything you do; it means gladly thinking about him, praying to him, gladly hearing and reading his word.

The only way is by mortifying our own wills which are always obtruding themselves. And the only way to do this is by letting Christ alone reign in our hearts, by surrendering our wills completely to him, by living in fellowship with Jesus and by following him. Then we can pray that his will may be done.

There is the question of resistance and of submission in the right place; that is, resistance to the devil is only possible in the fullest submission to the hand of God.

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

The real purpose in living was in giving every part of his life to Christ.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, 'Father, Your will for today is mine. You lead me today and I will follow.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Tell them that everything in their life is going to have to bend to His will. Repent and believe.