A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.

Please work out that surrender in my life—every day, in every matter, until I bow before You in eternity. Amen.

As long as I've given something the best I can, have really committed, everything else is up to God.

We are never more completely ourselves than when we make that decision to trust in God.

God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having--viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life...

Never sympathize with the thing that is stabbing God all the time. God has to hurt the thing that must go.

All our fretting and worrying is caused by planning without God.

Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result.

Gaining heaven, being delivered from sin, and being made useful to God are things that should never even be a consideration in real surrender.

When we pray, asking God to sanctify us, are we prepared to measure up to what that really means?

It is much better to fulfill the purpose of God in your life by discerning His will than it is to perform great acts of self-sacrifice.

Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account. We get ourselves into circumstances that were not chosen by God, and suddenly we realize that we have been making our plans without Him—that we have not even considered Him to be a vital, living factor in the planning of our lives.