Quotes about Surrender
When we take matters into our own hands, we take God out of the equation.
— Mark Batterson
True spirituality is "the place where desperation meets Jesus.
— Mark Batterson
Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.
— Mark Batterson
If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself. That's why God cannot fill you with His Spirit. But if you will empty yourself, if you will die to self, you'll be a different person by the time you reach the last page of this book.
— Mark Batterson
Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do.
— Mark Batterson
More than a hundred years ago, a British revivalist issued a holy dare that would change a life, a city, and a generation. That timeless challenge echoes across every generation: "The world has yet to see what God will do with and for and through and in and by the man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him.
— Mark Batterson
Consecration is going all in and all out for the All in All.
— Mark Batterson
It's not about success and failure. It's not about good days and bad days. It's not about wealth or poverty. It's not about health or sickness. It's not even about life or death. It's about glorifying God in whatever circumstance you find yourself in.
— Mark Batterson
We want everything God has to offer without giving anything up.
— Mark Batterson
there is nothing you possess that wasn't given to you by God. It's His prerogative to give. And it's His prerogative to take away. But there is one thing that can never be taken from you, and that is Jesus Christ. And if you have Jesus, then you have everything you will ever need for all of eternity. Everything - Jesus = Nothing Jesus + Nothing = Everything It's that simple.
— Mark Batterson
if you give all of yourself to God, you can ask and expect that God will give all of Himself to you because that's precisely what He wants to do. We have not because we ask not, and we ask not because we're not all in!
— Mark Batterson
Jesus proclaimed the favor of God in His very first sermon. Then He sealed the deal with His death and resurrection. Favor is a function of surrender. If we don't hold out on God, God will not hold out on us.
— Mark Batterson