Personal Surrender Quotes

I do not see my election of 1976 or my defeat in 1980 in the narrow focus of God's will for this specific event. I believe He has a purpose for individual lives as well as for the sweep of human events. He works out those purposes in ways far beyond our understanding. I was His in 1976. I am His in 1980. Now, let's go eat supper.

There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.

When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

As soon as you're willing to humble yourself and say, God, please help - then you can find out that His strength really is perfect, that He really does care for you, that He does really want to meet your need.

I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched.

A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts.

The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.

We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.