Quotes about Surrender

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

He makes Himself known to those who, after doing all that their powers will allow, confess that they need help from Him.

Disciples are not so much those who follow as those who must follow.

To believe in Jesus is to bow twice and then to obey forever

We are never more completely ourselves than when we make that decision to trust in God.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having--viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life...

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.