Quotes about Submission

Every difficulty can be overcome if rightly dealt with; anxiety is, therefore, unnecessary. The task which cannot be overcome ceases to be a difficulty, and becomes an impossibility; and anxiety is still unnecessary, for there is only one way of dealing with an impossibility - namely, to submit to it. The inevitable is the best.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

God always has and always will look for men and women who say to Him, 'I trust you so much, I'm all in. I want your way not mine. I am willing to live by faith!'

The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts.

Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

My God, I choose everything, I will not be a Saint by halves, I am not afraid of suffering for Thee, I only fear one thing, and that is to do my own will. Accept the offering of my will, for I choose all that Thou willest.

Our Lord has deigned to make me understand that by simple obedience I shall please Him best.