Quotes about Submission

After you have said "thy will be done," what more can be said?

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.

We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

Give your hands to Him for His work, your feet to walk His path, and your ears to hear Him speak.

A successful Christian life will not be based on how much work we have done, but rather, on how close to the Lord we have become and how obedient we have been.

I would rather obey than work miracles.

Our relationships must be shaped not by what we want, but by what God intends.

When God's wise and loving rule over you is replaced with self-rule, other people become your subjects.

If I am going to love you as I should, I must worship God as Sovereign

So the call to "give an account" is, first, not a call to beat unwilling people into intellectual submission, but to be the servant of those in need, often indeed the servant of those who are in the grip of their own intellectual self-righteousness and pride, usually reinforced by their social surroundings.