Quotes about Submission
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.
— AW Pink
Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God
— Mother Teresa
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
— Martin Luther
The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer
— Catherine Marshall
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.
— Aldous Huxley
Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.
— Scot McKnight
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
— Hudson Taylor
A man is powerful on his knees.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
— Phillips Brooks
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
— AW Tozer
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
— Victor Hugo