Quotes about Submission

Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.

God's Will is what we would choose if we knew what God knows.

We need to learn how to deny ourselves, so we can do that which does not come naturally—to truly love God and others.

But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact pleases You.

Those who imagine that they can discover special gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.

As soon as one is conscious of the presence of the Master, one must, in all passivity, abandon the work to Him.

There is therefore one fundamental religious experience which the Psalms can all teach us: the peace that comes from submission to Gods will and from perfect confidence in Him.

Real self-conquest is the conquest of ourselves not by ourselves but by the Holy Spirit. Self-conquest is really self-surrender.

If I do His will as a free act of homage and adoration paid to a wisdom that I cannot see, His will itself becomes the life and substance and reality of my worship/ But if I do His will as a perfunctory adjustment of my own will to the unavoidable, my worship is hollow and without heart.

To give my freedom blindly to a being equal to or inferior to myself is to degrade myself and throw away my freedom. I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God. If

Father," I answered, "I want to give God everything.

Whatever it takes to get you to the place where God is your all in all and you live in total dependence on Him is worth the pain. Let