Quotes About Surrender

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God.

Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.

Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.

The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it.

In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.

God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.

You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient.

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me.

Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.

God has control over everything, and obviously, everything to everyone is god-given.

I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.

My arms are too short to box with God.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.