Quotes about Surrender
Your idea may not be exactly God's idea, but I can promise you this: God's way will be better than your way.
— Joel Osteen
God gives us resources according to our dreams and according to our obedience. And God doesn't give those resources until we've started walking in obedience.
— John Maxwell
Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.
— AW Tozer
There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.
— AW Tozer
We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.
— AW Tozer
We are called not to adjust ourselves to each other, but to adjust ourselves to God.
— AW Tozer
God, harden me against myself!
— Amy Carmichael
What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
— Bernard of Clairvaux
I will send a shower of roses.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Since the age of three I have refused God nothing.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.
— Thomas a Kempis
Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.
— Tullian Tchividjian