Quotes about Surrender
Can we live now "as if" God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The
- Philip Yancey
We pray because we can't help it.
- Philip Yancey
I do not get to know God, then do God's will; I get to know God by doing that will.
- Philip Yancey
Those who suffer can respond to the call of the gospel with a certain abandonment and uncomplicated totality because they have so little to lose and are ready for anything.
- Philip Yancey
Only he who is helpless can truly pray.
- Philip Yancey
unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace.
- Philip Yancey
I need God more than anything I might get from God.
- Philip Yancey
Jesus' kingdom calls us to another way, one that depends not on our performance but his own. We do not have to achieve but merely follow.
- Philip Yancey
Though wrong does not disappear when I forgive, it loses its grip on me and is taken over by God, who knows what to do. Such a decision involves risk, of course: the risk that God may not deal with the person as I would want.
- Philip Yancey
You cannot earn God's acceptance by climbing; you must receive it as a gift.
- Philip Yancey
That stance of openness to receive is what I call the "catch" to grace. It must be received, and the Christian term for that act is repentance, the doorway to grace.
- Philip Yancey
We think we know what we want. In reality we should want nothing else but to be completely in line with His desires for us and His purposes in our generation. So we must resolve to let God be God on His terms, not ours.
- Priscilla Shirer