Quotes about Surrender
Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.
- Mother Teresa
It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.
- Mother Teresa
The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.
- Neil Anderson
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
- Catherine of Siena
God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.
- AW Tozer
The grace of God reaches to the furthest extent to those who are prepared to acknowledge their need.
- Alistair Begg
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination.
- CS Lewis
God had to do something IN me before He could do something THROUGH me.
- Craig Groeschel
Accepting God's acceptance of me doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying. It means I'm going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.
- Steven Furtick
I want to so live that God doesn't have to have to give me one minute's
- Leonard Ravenhill
To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.
- Mother Teresa
I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.
- Muhammad Ali