Quotes about Submission
The efficacy of prayer consists in a cognitive-spiritual catharsis, which purifies man of the most hideous untruth and deception, namely, the pretension that he belongs to himself and that he is his own lord.
— Joseph Soloveitchik
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
— Joseph Campbell
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
— AB Simpson
The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.
— AW Tozer
Prayer begins where our power ends.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
When God says to me, "obey," then I humbly bow my head, without compromising in the least my personal dignity, as a man.
— Abraham Kuyper
Faith spawns reflexive steps of obedience. It steps out. We must not imagine that we have faith if we do not obey.
— Kent Hughes
Headship modeled on the headship of Christ demands a profound life of devotion and intercessory prayer.
— Kent Hughes
if you are true to the leading of the Holy Spirit, you will have to do things that humble you, make you appear as a wimp, and do things that nobody will admire.
— RT Kendall
The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'" —C. S. Lewis
— Randy Alcorn
We are [God's] by creation, and again by redemption. He has every right to tell me what to do with my mind and body. I have. I right to do whatever I want with my body.
— Randy Alcorn