Quotes about Surrender
I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
- Mother Teresa
God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
- Watchman Nee
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
- CS Lewis
Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.
- Max Lucado
In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.
- AW Tozer
It is God who works in and through us, if only we would let God do His work.
- AW Tozer
God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.
- Louie Giglio
Put yourself completely under the influence of Jesus, so that he may think his thoughts in your mind, do his work through your hands, for you will be all-powerful with him to strengthen you.
- Mother Teresa
Our task is to relate our lives to God, and let Him work through us.
- Henry Blackaby
It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life.
- AW Tozer
It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.
- George Eliot
I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me.
- John Piper