Quotes about Surrender
A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.
- Brennan Manning
It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.
- Brother Lawrence
I want God, not my idea of God.
- CS Lewis
We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.
- CS Lewis
God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!
- Charles Spurgeon
If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.
- E Stanley Jones
I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.
- E Stanley Jones
I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
- Epictetus
Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!
- Horatius Bonar
When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it's because He loves us, He sometimes says no.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.
- Martin Luther