Quotes about Surrender
What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.
- Joyce Meyer
The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.
- Tullian Tchividjian
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
- George Bernard Shaw
The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
- TB Joshua
To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.
- Henri Nouwen
My word will never be as strong as God's word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.
- Kendrick Lamar
Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
- Billy Sunday
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
- St. Augustine
Give what you command, and command what you will.
- St. Augustine
Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.
- Ignatius of Loyola
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
- Teresa of Avila