Quotes About Surrender

Have you deliberately committed your will to Jesus Christ? It is a transaction of the will, not of emotion; any positive emotion that results is simply a superficial blessing arising out of the transaction.

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

The Lord will not go after you, and He will not plead with you. But every time He meets you at the place where He has pointed, He will simply repeat His words, saying, "If you really mean what you say, these are the conditions.

Paul was devoted to a person, not to a cause. He was absolutely Jesus Christ's. He saw nothing else and he lived for nothing else.

God engineers everything; and wherever He places us, our one supreme goal should be to pour out our lives in wholehearted devotion to Him in that particular work. "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might . . ." (Ecclesiastes 9:10).

True surrender is a matter of being "united together [with Jesus] in the likeness of His death" (Romans 6:5) until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him.

Am I willing and determined to hand over my simple naked self to God? Once I am, He will immediately sanctify me completely, and my life will be free from being determined and persistent toward anything except God

Oswald Chambers

Never try to help God fulfill His word.

Readiness for God means that we are prepared to do the smallest thing or the largest thing—it makes no difference. It means we have no choice in what we want to do, but that whatever God's plans may be, we are there and ready. Whenever any duty presents itself, we hear God's voice as our Lord heard His Father's voice, and we are ready for it with the total readiness of our love for Him.

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.

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

We have Christian attributes and experiences, but there is no abandonment to Jesus Christ.

The one thing that matters is whether a man will accept the God Who will make him holy. At all costs a man must be rightly related to God.

as long as our eyes are focused on our own personal holiness, we will never even get close to the full reality of redemption.

what God wants us to do is to "walk by faith." How many of us have set ourselves aside as if to say, "I cannot do anything else until God appears to me"? He will never do it. We will have to get up on our own, without any inspiration and without any sudden touch from God. Then comes our surprise and we find ourselves exclaiming, "Why, He was there all the time, and I never knew it!

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

My Higher Power sent me the message: I was as powerless over food as I was over booze.

It's simple: trust God, keep the fork down, and follow my food plan while living a Twelve-Step way of life like I always do. God will take care of me. He always has and will, no matter what!

We have found that when we give up self-will regarding food and completely turn our lives over to our Higher Power, we receive all kinds of guidance.

What a relief to leave the job of directing the universe to God.

God is doing for me what I could not do for myself. It is all an incomparably beautiful mystery.

I've come to believe that everything in life is worked out in advance. So whenever bad shit happens, there ain't nothing you can do about it. You've just gotta ride it out. And eventually death will come, like it comes to everyone.

He held his hands up again. "Subject dropped," he repeated. "I dropped it — look, there it goes, rolling across the floor.