Quotes about Surrender
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
God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'
— Rick Warren
Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.
— Stormie Omartian
The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.
— John Piper
What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?
— Thomas Merton
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
— E Stanley Jones
Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
— AW Tozer
"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.
— John Newton
Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.
— Catherine Marshall
When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.
— CS Lewis
Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.
— DL Moody
His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
— Henry Ward Beecher