Quotes about Faithful Surrender
The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.
- Jim Elliot
To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.
- Francis de Sales
At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
- Oswald Chambers
We don't serve God to gain His acceptance; we are accepted so we serve God. We don't follow Him in order to be loved; we are loved so we follow Him.
- Neil Anderson
True humility means total dependence on God for everything.
- TB Joshua
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
- John Stott
Ask God to show you His plans, not bless your dreams.
- Billy Graham
Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
- Teresa of Avila
You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.
- RT Kendall
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.
- Oswald Chambers
Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.
- Brother Lawrence