Quotes about Submission
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
— St. Augustine
Some of the qualities of # God must be merged into us before our # prayers can be fit for His acceptance.
— Oswald Chambers
We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
— Oswald Chambers
Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
— AW Tozer
"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.
— John Newton
Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.
— Catherine Marshall
We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.
— E Stanley Jones
True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will not the other way around.
— Anonymous
O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.
— Thomas a Kempis
Before we can pray "Lord Thy Kingdom come " we must be willing to pray "My Kingdom go."
— Alan Redpath
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.
— Oswald Chambers
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
— Oswald Chambers