Quotes about Surrender
Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.
— Martin Luther
Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.
— Marianne Williamson
Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.
— Oswald Chambers
Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.
— Oswald Chambers
The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.
— William Booth
He prays best who does not know that he is praying.
— St. Anthony of Padua
Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Pray, and let God worry.
— Martin Luther
I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter's vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him.
— Huldrych Zwingli
The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
— John Stott
When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
— Hudson Taylor
We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.
— Walter Brueggemann