Quotes about Submission

Obedience unlocks God's power.

No deity that ruled with fear and torment could win the hearts of its followers. They became animals themselves, thinking of baser and baser modes of worship until they threw their very infants to the flames. Only in Jesus was submission perfected, God made man. And through Jesus, man committed his heart to the only entity worthy of service—

I don't believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

Some kneel and lie to God.

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.