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Quotes about Submission

There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
— John Ortberg
We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
— Oswald Chambers
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
— Catherine of Siena
It must be God first, God second, and God third
— Oswald Chambers
I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
— Anais Nin
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination.
— CS Lewis
I want to so live that God doesn't have to have to give me one minute's
— Leonard Ravenhill
Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.
— Francis de Sales
Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
— Francis Chan
Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.
— James MacDonald
Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
— Ann Voskamp
In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."
— Alphonsus Liguori