Quotes about Submission

Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.

Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.

Any admonition that declares that we must rule should be checked with the immediate reminder that Christ did not. It is the cross—not the boardroom, not the Oval Office, and not the box office—that is the absolute center of the Kingdom of God.

Patience is simply a way of putting the other person first. Patience is an expression of submission.

Often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule.

I've noticed that two prayers in particular are among the riskiest a person can pray. [...] "God, open my eyes to who you really are, and then I'll open my life to you." [...] "God, here I am, fully submitted to you; use me as you have never used me before.

we can't be filled with the power of God until we let go of the false pretense that we can get by on our own.

Semiotic nudge is more about "Speak, Lord; your servant is listening" than it is "Listen, Lord; your servant is speaking."58

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.