Quotes About Surrender

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

God's solution is a prayer away!

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed!

Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

Father, in those moments of utter exasperation, help me to want You as much as I need You!

Lord take my lips and speak through them take my mind and think through it take my heart and set it on fire.

The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs but to invite Him to rule our lives.

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray pray thyself in me.

True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will not the other way around.

I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me.