Quotes about Submission

Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

My identity does not begin when I begin to understand myself. There is something previous to what I think about myself, and it is what God thinks of me. That means that everything I think and feel is by nature a response, and the one to whom I respond is God. I never speak the first word. I never make the first move.

There are a thousand ways of being religious without submitting to Christ's lordship, and people are practiced in most of them. We live in golden calf country. Religious feeling runs high but in ways far removed from what was said in Sinai and done on Calvary. While everyone has a hunger for God, deep and insatiable, none us has any great desire for him. What we really want is to be our own gods and to have whatever other gods that are around to help in this work.

What do you think God meant when he said, "Remove your sandals from your feet. You're standing on holy ground"?

He tells the sun, 'Don't shine,' and it doesn't; he pulls the blinds on the stars.

The Christian is a person who recognizes that our real problem is not in achieving freedom but in learning service under a better master. The Christian realizes that every relationship that excludes God becomes oppressive.

God-the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own. Romans 4:3

When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.

True intimacy with God always brings humility.