Quotes About Surrender

There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow with a generous self-abandonment every thing which He requires.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation.

... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.

Repentance is the key that unlocks the door to all that God has for us, but it is not easy.

Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.

Don't let your feelings be a God to you.

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will.

In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

When the Spirit of God moves within us, we must move with Him or be miserable.

Our way lies not in human ingenuity, but in a return to God.

. . .by lifting our hands we symbolically receive everything God is doing in our lives.

A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.

It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

I want God, not my idea of God.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

Summoned or not, the god will come.

People tethered to God by faith can let themselves go because they know they will get themselves back.

Who are we to ask God if it is his will.

It's amazing, 'cause sometimes when we're onstage, I feel like somebody's just moving the pieces. I'm just going, 'God, we don't have any control over this.' And that's magic.

Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.