Quotes about Surrender

Christians arrange their lives based on the revelation of God, regardless of whether it makes sense to them. God does not ask for our opinion about what is best for our future, our family, our church, or our country. He already knows! What God wants is to get the attention of His people and reveal to us what is on His heart and what is His will, for God's ways are not our ways! (Isa. 55:8—9).

There is a great difference between "living the Christian life" and allowing Christ to live His life through you.

I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or mine own. Yet this is nothing; I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

Joy is in learning to say yes to what is and to surrender into flow with what is, even when it's what you don't want.

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

We often don't realize that where God puts us is the very place we need to be to receive what He wants to give us.

God is awesome; he doesn't need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.

What might God be trying to grow in your character or cement in your relationship with Him by keeping you separated from some of the things you want but don't yet have?

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.