Quotes about Surrender

Superstition seeks to use the supernatural for my purposes; faith seeks to surrender to God's purposes. Faith teaches us that there is a Person behind the universe, and that Person responds to communication just as all persons do. Prayer is the primary way we communicate with God, and that's why prayer is so closely associated with seeking and discerning open doors.

The use of means for the obtaining of peace is ours; the bestowing of it is God's prerogative.

Each morning, when we wake—if we wake—we pick up whatever it is we've been given to carry for that day, with the sweet Lord Jesus in the yoke beside us to tote the load. Each night we lay it down, giving it into God's hands. If it's still there in the morning, we pick it up and begin again. If the burden is gone or if there is something different, we know where to start.

He kneels upon the solid rock and is looking up—not down at his burden!

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not on thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." "It's

Aim to live as a slave to Christ, because only then am I free…. We're all in some kind of bondage …. Most of us have the freedom to choose that slavery, whether we realize it or not."

It isn't because of who I am, Maureen. It's because of who He is and what He's done—what He longs to do in you!

Never is a man more ready to accept the Lord than when he faces his own mortality.

I am totally in the hands of the Lord.

We are never so free as when we own our sacred serfdom...

Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can.

God always has and always will look for men and women who say to Him, 'I trust you so much, I'm all in. I want your way not mine. I am willing to live by faith!'