Quotes about Surrender

It's certain that the thing a man's heart is most taken with and set upon is his God.

Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.

It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does.

Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God's right to do as He pleases in our lives.

It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance.

All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and insist on having their own way.

God owes me nothing. He doesn't have to work for anything good in my life. That is only for those who are called according to His purpose.

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

Things work in spite of me sometimes.

We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.