Quotes about Surrender

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Being wholly given over to God now is the essential and best possible preparation for future service.

I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this and go no further) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him.

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.

When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it.

The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.

It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.

Unless we deny our own will, we shall never do God's will.

A contented Christian does not seek to choose his cross but leaves God to choose for him. He is content with both for the kind and the duration. A contented spirit says, 'let God apply what medicine he pleases and let it remain as long as it will, I know that when it has done it's cure and eaten the venom of sin out of my heart, God will take it off again.

In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.

What is it to glorify God? Glorifying God consists in four things: 1. Appreciation, 2. Adoration, 3. Affection, 4. Subjection. This is the yearly rent we pay to the crown of heaven.

God would have us part with nothing for Him, but that which will damn us if we keep it.