Surrender Quotes

We can receive of heaven's light only as we are willing to be emptied of self.

Ellen G White

If you aren’t relishing something, release it.

As soon as we realize that it’s not our job to be perfect, everything gets easier and more honest and more true. And in my experience, it tends to work better.

Adamjk

Those who take Christ at His word and surrender their souls to His keeping, their lives to His ordering, will find peace and quietude.

Ellen G White

Feelings and emotions will fail you. Let the plans and purposes of God mandate your actions and choices, not your emotions and feelings.

Growing closer to God is not the result of “trying harder” but of surrendering more.

Sometimes you have to let go of the life you pictured, in order to have the life that God has planned.

John Hage

God will only multiply the given, empower the surrendered, fill the empty, exalt the humbled and guide the obedient.

David Diga Hernandez

Casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you.

1 Peter 5:7

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Abraham Lincoln

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.

A W Tozer

Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "You must do this. I can't.”

C S Lewis

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Maya Angelou

The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.

William Booth

Pray, and let God worry.

Martin Luther

Taking up my "cross" means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.

A W Pink

God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.

Andrew Murray

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

Billy Sunday

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

Elisabeth Elliot

We must surrender ourselves to God, not our assignments.

E'yen A Gardner

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

A W Tozer

You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.

Erwin Lutzer

If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!

Elisabeth Elliot

What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt.

John Newton

Let God have your life; He can do more with it than you can.

Dwight L Moody

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

Charles H Spurgeon

It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him. He turns hard things into easy and bitter things into sweet. It is not that He puts easy things in the place of the hard, but He actually changes the hard thing into an easy one.

Hannah Whitall Smith

Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

Martin Luther King Jr

In a real sense faith is total surrender to God.

Martin Luther King Jr

If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.

E Stanley Jones

When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

Marianne Williamson

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

C S Lewis

Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.

Marianne Williamson

Surrender = the loss of bondage, frustration and suffering.

It's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender.

Francis Chan

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Ellen G White

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Saint Teresa of Avila

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'

Francis Chan

God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.

Max Lucado

I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.

E Stanley Jones

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

Max Lucado

Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

Beth Moore

There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.

John Ortberg

Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness.

Saint Francis de Sales

Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.

Marianne Williamson

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

Joni Eareckson Tada

God offers authentic love. His devotion is the real deal. But He won't give you the genuine until you surrender the imitations.

Max Lucado

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

A W Tozer

The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.

Dwight L Moody

Whenever you surrender the most precious areas of your life to God, it's like trading in a pile of worthless pebbles for a truckload of priceless jewels.

Leslie Ludy

God will mend a broken heart if you will give Him all the pieces.

Myrtie Hobson Stantor