Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

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

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

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

It's funny how God will just keep using you, and our motto around our family forever has been, 'Just let Him use you.'

Do your duty and leave the rest to God.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

I want to be a good steward and make sure what's in my heart is what God wants, and then once it's done and released, at that point it's up to God and what he does on the back end.

God was in control, and I was just pliable enough to say yes to wherever He would lead.

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.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever and whenever he wants. If the writing or drawing is good, we do not honor the pencil or the material that is used, but rather the one who used it.

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

When we stop playing God, God can play through us.

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

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

First and foremost, I live for God now. His plans for me are better than whatever I can think.

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

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

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.

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

When we don't understand and don't agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we can't understand His wisdom. In faith, we are to accept His wisdom, His Word, and His workings, trusting in Him and obeying His commands.