Quotes about Submission

You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.

But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.

It is not the part of faith to question, but to obey.

Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith.

Pride moves us to bow down before a mirror rather than before God.

But God himself hath plainly declared what are the qualifications of those souls which are meet to be made partakers of divine teachings, or ever shall be so; and these are, as they are frequently expressed, meekness, humility, godly fear, reverence, submission of soul and conscience unto the authority of God, with a resolution and readiness for and unto all that obedience which he requireth of us, especially that which is internal in the hidden man of the heart.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

Aim to live as a slave to Christ, because only then am I free…. We're all in some kind of bondage …. Most of us have the freedom to choose that slavery, whether we realize it or not."

I am totally in the hands of the Lord.