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Quotes About Surrender

When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Don't wait to worship God until you get to the Promised Land; you've got to worship along the way.
~ Mark Batterson
To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.
~ Max Lucado
Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.
~ Meister Eckhart
Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
~ Philip Yancey
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.
~ Oswald Chambers
There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.
~ Randy Alcorn
God never asks us to give what we do not have . . . But he cannot use what we will not give.
~ Richard Stearns
All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.
~ Rose Philippine Duchesne
Last night I learned how to be a lover of God. To live in this world and call nothing my own.
~ Rumi
There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.
~ Rumi
BECAUSE SELF IS NO LONGER OUR GOD, SAFETY IS NO LONGER OUR CONCERN.
~ David Platt
God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.
~ Derwin L. Gray
God gives all God asks all
~ Elisabeth Elliot
God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
~ Francois Fenelon
The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.
~ George MacDonald
We also need to recognize that God may have other plans in store for us, and we must be willing to accept that.
~ Greg Laurie
He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.
~ Irving Stone
Until we give God our heart, we give Him nothing at all.
~ J. C. Ryle
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.
~ Jean Racine
Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.
~ John C. Maxwell
Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
~ John Ortberg
Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn't fully understand and asks about what she doesn't know. Then she gives herself completely to doing the divine will.
~ Josemaria Escriva