Willie Aames Quotes

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Let me live and I will do all you wish.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either".

Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.'

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I don't conquer, I submit.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

If the leadership asks me to die a martyr, I am ready ... and if they ask me to resign, I am also ready

Kiss the hand you cannot bite.