Quotes about Submission

Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.

If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him.

Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

Joni discovered the best way to put the halter on her horse without being animal resisting and fleeing was to turn her back until he nuzzled up to her. At that point, she could slip the halter on. Just so, she surmises, sometimes God waits for us to turn our backs on what we desire most and to trust Him.

Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

My identity does not begin when I begin to understand myself. There is something previous to what I think about myself, and it is what God thinks of me. That means that everything I think and feel is by nature a response, and the one to whom I respond is God. I never speak the first word. I never make the first move.

There are a thousand ways of being religious without submitting to Christ's lordship, and people are practiced in most of them. We live in golden calf country. Religious feeling runs high but in ways far removed from what was said in Sinai and done on Calvary. While everyone has a hunger for God, deep and insatiable, none us has any great desire for him. What we really want is to be our own gods and to have whatever other gods that are around to help in this work.

What do you think God meant when he said, "Remove your sandals from your feet. You're standing on holy ground"?

He tells the sun, 'Don't shine,' and it doesn't; he pulls the blinds on the stars.

The Christian is a person who recognizes that our real problem is not in achieving freedom but in learning service under a better master. The Christian realizes that every relationship that excludes God becomes oppressive.

God-the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.