Quotes about Submission

Sweet Love say Where, how and when What do you want of me? Yours I am, for You I was born: What do you want of me? . . .

Nay, in many cases open denials of prayer prove the most excellent answers, and God's not hearing us is the most signal audience. Therefore at the foot of every prayer subscribe "thy will be done," and thou shalt enjoy preventing mercies that thou never soughtest, and converting mercies to change all for the best, resting confident in this, that having asked according to his will he heareth thee.

Arbitrary governing hath no alliance with God.

My shallow and ebb thoughts are not the compass Christ saileth by. I leave His ways to Himself, for they are far, far above me . . . There are windings and to's and fro's in His ways, which blind bodies like us cannot see.

Give Him leave to take His own way of dispensation with you; and though it be rough, forgive Him; He defieth you to have as much patience to Him, as He hath borne to you .

duties are ours, events are the Lord's.

the import of the book was that even the king must obey the law, because the king is also under the law.

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

the first step toward the one true God is to acknowledge that we are not that God.

The main point of a prayer meeting is not to move God but to allow God to move us. The Bible says we Christians grieve, quench, and resist the Holy Spirit.[97] So, we pray to repent of our sin against him and align our will with his. The Spirit is always available to us, and in prayer we make ourselves available to him.