Quotes About Surrender

Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.

My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.

Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence.

If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."

Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.

God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.

You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.

Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer

Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.

Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.

By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.

Puja (worship) is offering to God, prathana (prayer) is demanding from God. When we pray by offering all our karma and even ourselves to God, the prayer fruitifies.

Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.

God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.