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Quotes About Surrender

If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.
~ E. Stanley Jones
I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.
~ E. Stanley Jones
I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
~ Epictetus
Christianity = me moving out, God moving in.
~ Eric Ludy
What does God want me to do?", not "What will God do if I do so and so?
~ George MacDonald
Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!
~ Horatius Bonar
When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it's because He loves us, He sometimes says no.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
True holiness is not achieved by what we do, but what we allow God to do in us.
~ Mark Hart
Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.
~ Martin Luther
If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God's ever flowing grace.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
I am convinced that God Himself is tampering with the economic system of the world to reduce us back to Him.
~ Myles Munroe
There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don't know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don't delay obedience.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.
~ Nancy Mairs
Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.
~ Philip Yancey
I have this whole thing that when God gives you more that you have imagined, you should give it back.
~ Preity Zinta
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
~ Oswald Chambers
God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.
~ Oswald Chambers
Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?
~ Oswald Chambers
Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.
~ Oswald Chambers
Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference
~ Oswald Chambers
If you and I are to be used in our sphere as D.L. Moody was used in his, we must put all that we have and all that we are in the hands of God, for Him to use as He will.
~ R. A. Torrey
Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
To believe in God is to give your heart to God.
~ Frederick Buechner