Quotes about Surrender
Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
- AW Tozer
"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.
- John Newton
Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.
- Catherine Marshall
When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.
- CS Lewis
Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.
- DL Moody
His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer.
- Charles Swindoll
We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.
- E Stanley Jones
Teach me O God not to torture myself not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.
- Soren Kierkegaard
True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will not the other way around.
- Anonymous
O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.
- Thomas a Kempis
Before we can pray "Lord Thy Kingdom come " we must be willing to pray "My Kingdom go."
- Alan Redpath