Quotes About Surrender

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

We are here for God's designs, not for our own

Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.

Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.

Regardless of the cause, none of your problems could happen without God's permission.

God is the one that's ultimately in control of everything. You can't try to change things when they're not meant to be changed.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.

Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

God is never satisfied with anything less than all.

We will never be more ourselves, with the fullness of our personality and the uniqueness of our gifting, than when we just wholly give ourselves over to our very faithful, faithful God.

Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.

Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if i'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen.

In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.

Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.

Never is a woman so fulfilled as when she chooses to underwhelm her schedule so she can let God overwhelm her soul.