Quotes about Submission

And the Christian life has suffered loss, where believers have not been distinctly guided to see that, even in our relation as creatures, nothing is more natural and beautiful and blessed than to be nothing, that God may be all;

Be sure that at the root of all real experience of more grace, of all true advance in consecration, of all actually increasing conformity to the likeness of Jesus, there must be a deadness to self that proves itself to God and men in our dispositions and habits.

Our Lord, who learned obedience by waiting every moment to see and hear the Father, has a great lesson to teach us: It is only when, like Him, with Him, in and through Him, we continually walk with God and hear His voice that we can possibly attempt to offer God the obedience He asks. From

The extent of our love to the Lord is shown by the way we obey His commands. Love does all that it can to make the loved one happy.

Jesus gave up His life to God, and by this He taught us that the only thing that life is worth living for is to give it back to God, even unto death.

Nothing short of conformity to Christ—a life wholly dedicated to God—should satisfy you.

Abiding in the Vine then comes to be nothing more or less than the restful surrender of the soul to let Christ have all and work all

Faith is obedience at home and looking to the Master; obedience is faith going out to do His will.

The one true way of dying to self is the way of patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God.

The lower and the emptier a man lays himself before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of divine glory.

Let's yield ourselves to take up the appointment the Savior gives us. Let's concentrate on His relationship to us as Master and no longer start each new day with thoughts of comfort, or joy, or blessing. Let the first thought be: I belong to the Master.

nothing can save us but the restoration of our lost humility, the original and only true relationship of the creature to its God.