Quotes about Submission
The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.
— William Booth
Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.
— AW Pink
I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter's vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him.
— Huldrych Zwingli
The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
— John Stott
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
— Eugene Peterson
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
— RC Sproul
Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.
— Henry Blackaby
God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.
— JD Greear
Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.
— William Barclay
Prayer is continual abandonment to God.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.
— Charles Spurgeon