Quotes about Faithful Surrender
A. W. Tozer said, "The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.
- Rick Warren
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
- Kathleen Norris
Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pray, and let God worry.
- Martin Luther
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
- Mother Teresa
Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
- RC Sproul
May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
- Mother Teresa
When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.
- Scot McKnight
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
- St. Augustine
Whole prayer is nothing but love.
- St. Augustine