Quotes about Submission
Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.
— Adoniram Judson
There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You're serving people and submitting to God as best you can.
— Richard Foster
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