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Quotes About Surrender

Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.
~ Jim Elliot
God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.
~ John Calvin
Keep God first. If you do that, if you just focus on God and keeping Him first, then everything else will just take care of itself. Do everything for Him.
~ John Salmons
Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.
~ Beth Moore
My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.
~ Charles Studd
God's grace is freely available but in order to receive it you have to realize you are lost without it.
~ David Jeremiah
Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.
~ David Livingstone
I'm just going to keep working. Spend more days in the gym, as possible. Just trying to get my game up, and just keep playing. And if it's in God's will for me to win, then I'll get it.
~ Dwight Howard
Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.
~ Francis Chan
Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . .
~ Ibn Ata Allah
He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.
~ John Ruskin
God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.
~ Meister Eckhart
We can fall, but in the end we fall into God's hands, and God's hands are good hands.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.
~ Oswald Chambers
You will never understand what you're doin'. But God does.
~ Rich Mullins
Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here.
~ Rumi
Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.
~ Rumi
The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.
~ Stephen F Olford
When we stop playing God, God can play through us.
~ Julia Cameron
We must trust God, not only WHEN we do not understand, but BECAUSE we do not understand.
~ Steve Lawson
I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.
~ Thomas Paine
Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.
~ Anjem Choudary