Quotes about Submission

In passing however I must say of one thing that has pressed upon me lately and encreased my Humility and capability of submission and that is this truth - Men of Genius are great as certain ethereal Chemicals operating on the Mass of neutral intellect - but they have not any individuality, any determined Character - I would call the top and head of those who have a proper self Men of Power.

Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord

You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.

But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.

It is not the part of faith to question, but to obey.

Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith.

Pride moves us to bow down before a mirror rather than before God.

But God himself hath plainly declared what are the qualifications of those souls which are meet to be made partakers of divine teachings, or ever shall be so; and these are, as they are frequently expressed, meekness, humility, godly fear, reverence, submission of soul and conscience unto the authority of God, with a resolution and readiness for and unto all that obedience which he requireth of us, especially that which is internal in the hidden man of the heart.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.