Quotes about Submission

Even though most people coming to a church for the first time cannot articulate this verse, they are probably thinking something similar to what James and John said to Jesus, "Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. 'Teacher, ' they said, 'we want you to do for us whatever we ask'" (Mark 10:35 NIV, emphasis added). Each week people show up telling the church, many times, "We want you to do for us whatever we ask".

God's purpose was not simply to deliver Israel from Pharoah's yoke. It was to bring them under His yoke.

If you pick 'em up, O Lord, I'll put 'em down.

Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?

The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Whosoever submits his will to God and performs good deeds, has laid hold of the most firm handle, and unto God is the issue of all affairs.

O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

There cometh one mightier than I [John the Baptist] after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.