Quotes about Submission

The main thing is our attitude. We can pray earnestly to God for relief and still be submissive to Him regarding the outcome.

If we think about it, we realize that obedience that is not delighted in is not perfect obedience.

We must learn to live by His agenda if we are to trust Him.

The so-called sovereign nations of the world are not truly sovereign. They are nothing more than instruments in the hand of God to accomplish His will:

It seems we will allow God to be anywhere except upon His throne ruling His universe according to His good pleasure and His sovereign will.

Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.

Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.

Any admonition that declares that we must rule should be checked with the immediate reminder that Christ did not. It is the cross—not the boardroom, not the Oval Office, and not the box office—that is the absolute center of the Kingdom of God.

Patience is simply a way of putting the other person first. Patience is an expression of submission.

Often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule.