Quotes about Surrender

All that is necessary is a heart dedicated entirely and solely to Him out of love for Him above all others.

This made me resolve to give the all for the all; so after having given myself wholly to GOD, that He might take away my sin, I renounced, for the love of Him, everything that was not He; and I began to live as if there was none but He and I in the world.

in difficulties we need only have recourse to JESUS CHRIST, and beg his grace; with that everything became easy.

The spiritual life is neither an art nor a science. To arrive at union with God all one needs is a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, do nothing but for His sake, and to love Him only.

Sometimes I consider myself there as a stone before a carver, whereof he is to make a statue; presenting myself thus before GOD, I desire Him to form His perfect image in my soul, and make me entirely like Himself.

Imagine a world with just you and God. In this world, you have a present, personal, and indisputable sense that He is all yours and you are all His.

Gradually train yourself to show your love for Him by asking for His grace. Offer your heart to Him at every moment

Yet, strain does not seem to do good. At the moment I feel something "let go" inside, lo, God is here! It is a heart-melting "here-ness," a lovely whispering of father to child; and the reason I did not have it before was that I had failed to let go.

When an occasion arose to exercise some virtue, he committed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless You enable me." Then he received more than sufficient strength.

He never worried about what would become of him; rather, he threw himself into the arms of infinite mercy.

Our sanctification does not depend upon changing what we do, but in doing for God's sake what we normally do for our own sake.

He said that our sanctification does not depend as much on changing our activities as it does on doing them for God rather than for ourselves.