Quotes about Submission

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it - this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

Only obedience,' he said aloud to the room, as though to convince himself, 'is perfect freedom.

Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.

Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.