Quotes about Surrender

You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen.

he wants to be completely in control. In a way, it's a relief. ...[she] doesn't have to think when she's with him, or make a decision, or state a preference.

Evil was defeated because good people rose to the challenge and refused to surrender.

The sad truth is, if you push hard enough, and if you're so stubborn that you must have things your way, God will sometimes allow you to undertake a project without His blessing or at the wrong time. The problem with that, of course, is when you start something in your own strength and in your own timing, you're going to have to finish it and maintain it in your own strength.

If you're not seeing God move in your life right now, one of two possibilities must be considered. Either your requests are not God's best and will probably not be answered the way you'd like or it must not be the right time. If God were to answer that prayer the way you are hoping, it could interfere with his ideal plan for you.

God can do in a split second what might otherwise take you many years.