586 Quotes About Surrender

Likely the greatest ability that I have is the ability to acknowledge my inability so that I might make room for God’s ability.

If it’s dependent upon me, it will likely land on you. If it’s dependent on God, you will likely land on it.

The word “impossible” is a word concocted by men so that we might have some tasteless verbiage to describe the way that we’ve surrendered to our limitations. But if we’re walking with God attempting to justify surrender is itself impossible, so maybe we should trash the verbiage and embrace our God.

The greatest joy is not finding something that we’ve been looking for. The greatest joy is when we’d given up on ever finding it and then it found us.

By laying down our burden of needing to be needed and surrendering our longing for significance, we strike down the lie that we must somehow earn our privilege to exist. We declare that any activity with God is sacred, no matter how frivolous it may seem to the outside world. And we are free to enjoy the simple act of creation because we know that every good and perfect gift comes from God.

If God is going to be all that He is, I must reach a point where I am emptied of all that I am. It’s only then that the fullness of God has space in the emptiness of me.

Victory in life is absolute surrender to God in obedience to faith.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

Is it not eminently just that I should give myself entirely and without reserve to Him Who drew me out of nothing, and Who at every moment of my life maintains the existence He has given me; Whom I have received all and from Whom I expect all, and without Whom I can never be happy?