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Quotes About Surrender

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
~ Teresa of Avila
Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.
~ Charles Grandison Finney
Brokenness is God's requirement for maximum usefulness.
~ Charles Stanley
Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.
~ David Brainerd
Once we surrender our mind to God completely, He will take care of us in every way.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.
~ T. D. Jakes
God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.
~ Paul Washer
For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.
~ Bayazid Bastami
Christ never was in a hurry. There was no rushing forward, no anticipating, no fretting over what might be. Each day's duties were done as each day brought them, and the rest was left with God.
~ Mary Slessor
The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.
~ Jim Elliot
Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.
~ Jane Frances de Chantal
Be patient. Let God answer your question on His schedule, not yours.
~ T. B. Joshua
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
~ John Vianney
Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.
~ Bayazid Al-Bistami
Our heart's desire should be to worship God; we have been designed by God for this purpose. If we don't worship God, we'll worship something or someone else.
~ John Wimber
When we demonstrate our faith in God by our obedience, He not only promises to provide for us, He will provide.
~ Benny Hinn
Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
~ William James
All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
~ Oswald Chambers
Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
~ Baal Shem Tov
There is nothing wrapped in my turban but God.
~ Mansur Al-Hallaj
Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.
~ Andrew Murray, Humility