Quotes about Submission
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
— CS Lewis
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
— CS Lewis
Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.
— CS Lewis
There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.
— CS Lewis
Chile with the purpose of finding her lover and becoming his slave forever, believing that was the way to extinguish her thirst to submit and her hidden wish for possession, but now she doubted that she could give up those new wings beginning to sprout on her shoulders.
— Isabel Allende
I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
— Mother Teresa
Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
— Henry David Thoreau
Be God or let God.
— Anonymous
For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer is an opportunity to have a conversation with God to try to get in tune with what his will is.
— Francis Collins
Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.
— Timothy Keller
All god wants us to do is do what he asks us to do.
— Joyce Meyer
True obedience is true freedom.
— Henry Ward Beecher