Quotes about Surrender

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5

I've spent much of my ministry apologizing to people for what appears to be a rather odd show of taste on the part of the One who called me. I have no idea why in this world God has risked His name on someone like me. I will never comprehend such grace and stubbornness of will to teach a woman with a penchant for ditches how to walk a higher path.

Why does God allow us to spend so much of life in the heart of battle? Because He never meant for us to sip His Spirit like a proper cup of tea. He meant for us to hold our sweating hands over the fountain and lap up His life with unquenchable thirst.

TRUST GOD. Plain and simple. Not easy, mind you, but basic and uncomplicated.

Let God have your failures. Surrender to Him your most dreadful moments of captivity, your most humiliating defeats. God and God alone can use them to make you twice the warrior you ever dreamed you'd be.

God sometimes uses us most powerfully when we feel the least adequate.

Life isn't fair. Not from any direction. I live in the inconceivable grace of God every day of my life. That's not fair either.

If you've lived your life looking for someone to take care of you but you always end up taking care of everyone else, your search is over. God has what you need, and you'll never wear Him out.

Wholeness will only come when we give ourselves wholly to God and let Him fill every empty place in our lives.

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. Psalm 139:23

In our Christian lives, success is obedience to God, not results we can measure.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time. 1 Peter 5:6