Quotes about Submission
What is it, Lord?" What am I holding back? What am I using as an excuse for not serving You in whatever You want me to do?" And then, there by the canal, I finally had my answer. My "yes" to God had always been a "yes, but." Yes, but I'm not educated. Yes, but I'm lame. With the next breath, I did say "Yes." I said it in a brand-new way, without qualification. "I'll go, Lord
— Brother Andrew
But in a real Christian partnership, one member's guidance is always submitted to the other's for correction and confirmation.
— Brother Andrew
Scripture tells us to submit to governing authorities. That's a valid command—most of the time. However, when we fear God, there comes a time when we must resist human government and yield to a higher authority. Government is given to protect the good and to punish the bad (see Romans 13:3). When government protects the bad and punishes the good, then our submission to legal authority may have to end. This becomes the source of persecution for righteousness' sake.
— Brother Andrew
Whenever, wherever, however You want me, I'll go. And I'll begin this very minute. Lord, as I stand up from this place, and as I take my first step forward, will You consider this is a step toward complete obedience to You? I'll call it the step of yes.
— Brother Andrew
It's better to obey God rather than men.
— Brother Andrew
Lord, if you show me the way, I will follow You.
— Brother Andrew
Sometimes I consider myself there as a stone before a carver, whereof he is to make a statue; presenting myself thus before GOD, I desire Him to form His perfect image in my soul, and make me entirely like Himself.
— Brother Lawrence
We should seek our satisfaction only in fulfilling His will, whether that leads to suffering or comfort.
— Brother Lawrence
We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control both of our own lives and the government we live under. God has used China's government for His own purposes, molding and shaping His children as He sees fit. Instead of focusing our prayers against any political system, we pray that regardless of what happens to us, we will be pleasing to God.
— Brother Yun
Please listen carefully. The key for experiencing the flow of God's living water in your life is … Obedience.
— Brother Yun
this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
— Herman Melville
What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament?
— Herman Melville