Quotes About Surrender

So in every test, let us say: "Thank you, my God, because this was needed for my salvation."

Find where God is and get behind what He's doing. He always wins.

Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God's will, whatever comes.

I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

God's plans for you are better than any plans you have for yourself. So don't be afraid of God's will, even if it's different from yours.

Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.

It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.

Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.

Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

When you let God be God you can let humans be humans. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

Things may not be logical or fair, but when God is directing the events of our lives, they are right.

A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.

To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.

God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

The question is not, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The question is, "Do you want God?"

Ask God for the grace to live for Him and continue to live in Him. Right now, surrender it all to Him.

You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.