Quotes about Surrender
Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will.
- Teresa of Avila
I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.
- Thomas Merton
We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God
- Lysa TerKeurst
When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
- Mahatma Gandhi
To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.
- Max Lucado
Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
- Philip Yancey
As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.
- Oswald Chambers
There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.
- Randy Alcorn
Because self is no longer our god, safety is no longer our concern.
- David Platt
God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.
- Derwin Gray
God gives all God asks all.
- Elisabeth Elliot