Quotes About Surrender

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Waiting prayer, or waiting on the Lord, is the silent surrendering of the soul to God. It is wordless worship. It is seeking God not from without but from within. It is to seek God in your heart.

God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.

To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.

Now let me burn out for God.

O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.

Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.

Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

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.

Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.

God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him make them beautiful.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.