Quotes About Surrender

Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

We don't choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.

To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.

When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

I do not come to God so that Jesus can give me what I want. But I must come to God so that Jesus will grant me what I need.

Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.

O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

God is good whether or not His choices seem right to us, whether or not we feel it, whether or not it seems true, and whether or not He gives us everything that we want.

What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.

When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

God has a right to interrupt your life. He is Lord. When you accepted Him as Lord, you gave Him the right to help Himself to your life anytime He wants.

Instead of asking, "what do I want from life?," a more powerful question is, "what does life want from me?

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

You may not get what you want, but God always gives you what you need.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

Heaven is His choice for you. But He won't force you to go there if you don't want to.

The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do.