Quotes about Surrender

Real life begins by committing yourself completely to Jesus Christ.

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.

Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.

If life were stable, I'd never need God's help.

I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.

I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. Our weakness, in fact, makes room for his power.

The hardest part of faith is often simply to wait. And the trouble is, if we don't, then we start to fix the problem ourselves - and that makes it worse. We complicate the situation to the point where it takes God much longer to fix it than if we had quietly waited for his working in the first place.

There will be more Christlikeness in us only when we humble ourselves and say, 'God, I can't live the life you meant for me on my own. I don't have the love, wisdom, or power. But come, Holy Spirit, and pour it into me. Teach me what it means to walk in the Spirit.