Quotes about Surrender

In all your temporal concerns, in all your cares and anxieties, wait upon the Lord.

Now when you can no longer be active, and infirmities press upon you, all that God requires of you is to trust Him.

Something better" is the watchword... of all true living. Whatever Christ asks us to renounce, He offers in its stead something better...

The surrender of all our powers to God greatly simplifies the problem of life. It weakens and cuts short a thousand struggles with the passions of the natural heart.

Each morning consecrate yourselves and your children to God for that day. Make no calculation for months or years; these are not yours. One brief day is given you. As if it were your last on earth, work during its hours for the Master. Lay all your plans before God, to be carried out or given up, as His providence shall indicate.—Testimonies for the Church 7:44 (1902).

We can receive of heaven's light only as we are willing to be emptied of self.

But he did not hesitate to obey the call. He had no question to ask concerning the land of promise—whether the soil was fertile and the climate healthful; whether the country afforded agreeable surroundings and would afford opportunities for amassing wealth. God has spoken, and his servant must obey; the happiest place on earth for him was the place where God would have him to be.

Why resist the overtures of mercy? Why say, "Let me alone," until God shall be compelled to give you your desire, since you will have it so?

I noted that it is sometimes hard to tell whether you are being killed or saved by the hands that turn your life upside down.

To lie flat on the ground with the breath knocked out of you is to find a solid resting place. This is as low as you can go. You told yourself you would die if it ever came to this, but here you are. You cannot help yourself and yet you live.

Then one night when my whole heart was open to hearing from God what I was supposed to do with my life, God said, "Anything that pleases you." "What?" I said, resorting to words again. "What kind of an answer is that?" "Do anything that pleases you," the voice in my head said again, "and belong to me.

When you live in God, your day begins when you lose yourself long enough for God to find you, and when God finds you, to lose yourself