Quotes About Surrender

To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed until now, letting only God live in one's heart.

Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.

We need to ask ourselves a question: Do we trust God? Is he not the same yesterday, today, and forever? And if he is, then how is compromise a strategy? It's not a strategy, it's wholesale surrender.

God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.

It's God's job to run the world. Sometimes we accomplish more by doing less.

Do the IMPRACTICAL so that God can do the IMPOSSIBLE!

Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

Faith offers the promise that everything will ultimately be renewed in God. This hardly means that we will, or must, receive an answer from God for every question in our lives.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be loser. You will not lose anything except bondage, frustration and suffering. That is all you will lose.

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.