Quotes about Submission
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
— Oswald Chambers
When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
— Ezra Taft Benson
God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.
— Catherine Marshall
We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves
— Elisabeth Elliot
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
— Oswald Chambers
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.
— Bede Griffiths
We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.
— Oswald Chambers
A spiritual Christian should welcome any burden which the Lord brings his way.
— Watchman Nee
When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.
— Derwin Gray
A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.
— Beth Moore