Quotes About Surrender

Either we will spend our lives trying to take care of ourselves or we will let go and let God take care of us as we put our faith and trust in Him.

I believe it's easy to serve God if we learn to hear from Him before we struggle to do things for Him that He never asked us to do.

If you want to become that close to 'God', die instead.

When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

When God calls you to do something, He provides everything it takes to get it done.

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken "toys," but as our Father.

Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?

He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

We would all believe in God if he served our every whim. Belief is not about an easy life or even truth. Belief is something you have regardless.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God's loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own

If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty.

It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!