Quotes about Surrender
What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
- Bernard of Clairvaux
I will send a shower of roses.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Since the age of three I have refused God nothing.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.
- Thomas a Kempis
Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.
- Tullian Tchividjian
Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.
- Francis Chan
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
- John Ortberg
Either we will spend our lives trying to take care of ourselves or we will let go and let God take care of us as we put our faith and trust in Him.
- Joyce Meyer
I believe it's easy to serve God if we learn to hear from Him before we struggle to do things for Him that He never asked us to do.
- Joyce Meyer
When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.
- Marianne Williamson
Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.
- Martin Luther
God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.
- Max Lucado