Quotes about Surrender
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
— John Owen
Do not become more useful than God.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Faith is obedience nothing else.
— Emil Brunner
The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.
— George Muller
If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
— Elisabeth Elliot
I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.
— David Livingstone
Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.
— Catherine Marshall
The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.
— RC Sproul
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.
— Martin Luther
Nothing will enter your life that God does not either decree or allow. And nothing will ever enter your life that, if you are willing to trust in him, he cannot work out for your good.
— Chip Ingram