Charles L. Allen Quotes

Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

You pray for things, and you know, we all have our wishlists, but I've learned to pray for whatever's in your will.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

Confidence brings joy when we let God be God.

Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

Something I always try to practice is be anxious for nothing, but let your request be known to God.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

I do not attempt to orchestrate my career. I let God do that.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overpowering conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day

Glory be and praise to God. I didn't do any of this. God did. I don't have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

Everything I do in life I put in the hands of God, my creator.

I trust God's timing. I'm a very spiritual person, and a lot of times, we want things on our time, and we come up with our own plans of what we want to do with our lives, but God be like, 'Haha, you're funny. That's cute. Anyways, this is what you're going to do,' and I've learned to just sit back.

Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.