Quotes about Submission

True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him.

Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.

If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender.

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.

The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, freely submitting to, and taking delight in God's wise, and fatherly disposal in every condition.

The truth is, it is more obedience to submit to God in a low calling than to submit to Him in a higher calling. For it is sheer obedience, mere obedience, that makes you go on in a low calling; but there may be much self-love that makes men go on in a higher calling. For there are riches, credit, and account in the world; and rewards come in by that, which do not in the other.

This is how you honour God, that you can turn this way or that way, as God calls you to it.

We are to humble ourselves under God's mighty hand, approaching every relationship and every circumstance in reference to Him.

God's government is perfect and just. His moral law is "holy, righteous and good" (Romans 7:12). No one ever has a valid reason to rebel against the government of God. We rebel for only one reason: We were born rebellious. We were born with a perverse inclination to go our own way, to set up our own internal government rather than submit to God.

we reduce God's control over our lives to a stop-and-go, in-and-out proposition.