Quotes about Surrender
Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
- Billy Sunday
Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.
- Henry Blackaby
Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.
- Madeleine L'Engle
We don't choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.
- Henry Blackaby
To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.
- Ravi Zacharias
As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
- AB Simpson
Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
I do not come to God so that Jesus can give me what I want. But I must come to God so that Jesus will grant me what I need.
- Alistair Begg
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
- Kathleen Norris
God is good whether or not His choices seem right to us, whether or not we feel it, whether or not it seems true, and whether or not He gives us everything that we want.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.
- Catherine Booth