Quotes about Surrender

Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God's right to do as He pleases in our lives.

It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance.

All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and insist on having their own way.

God owes me nothing. He doesn't have to work for anything good in my life. That is only for those who are called according to His purpose.

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

Things work in spite of me sometimes.

We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.

Rest is the ability to totally trust God without living under the stress of the cares of life.

We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt. 7:7).