Quotes about Submission

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

A spiritual Christian should welcome any burden which the Lord brings his way.

When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.

A dervish was tempted by the devil to cease calling upon Allah, on the ground that Allah never answered, "Here am I." The Prophet Khadir appeared to him in a vision with a message from God.) Was it not I who summoned thee to my service? Was it not I who made thee busy with my name? Thy calling "Allah!"was my "Here am I." Jalal-uddin Rumi

Conformity to the will of God, submission, docility to the leadings of the Holy Ghost in practice, if not verbally, these are the same as conformity to the Perfect Way, refusing to have preferences and cherish opinions, keeping the eyes open so that dreams may cease and Truth reveal itself.