Quotes about Surrender
By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.
- Leonard Ravenhill
God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.
- Anne Lamott
God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows
- Timothy Keller
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
- Phillips Brooks
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.
- Elisabeth Elliot
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
- St. Augustine
God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'
- Rick Warren
Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.
- Stormie Omartian
The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.
- John Piper
What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?
- Thomas Merton
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
- E Stanley Jones