Quotes on Surrender & Obedience
The consecrated life — presenting ourselves to God, and following where he leads.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, … that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice.
31 quotations from 7 writers, each traced to the exact paragraph it comes from.
Andrew Murray 9
The spirit of separation is the spirit of self-sacrifice, of surrender to the love of God; the truly separate one will be the most loving and love-winning, given up to serve God and man.
The word is nothing if it is not kept, obeyed, or done.
Ever stand before God, in Christ; ever wait for all grace from God, in Christ; ever yield yourself to bear the more fruit the Husbandman asks, in Christ.
It was by obedience Christ as Vine honored the Father as Husbandman; it is by obedience the believer as branch honors Christ as Vine.
God only asks of us to yield, to consent, to wait upon Him, and He will do it all.
The Lord does not demand of us a perfect fulfilment of the law; no, but only the childlike and whole-hearted surrender to live as a child with Him in obedience and truth.
With our whole being consciously yielded to the inspiration of the Word and Spirit, our desires will be no longer ours but His; their chief end the glory of God.
Faith is obedience at home and looking to the Master: obedience is faith going out to do His will.
Obedience is the only path that leads to the glory of God.
Augustine of Hippo 3
The mind commands the body, and it obeys instantly; the mind commands itself, and is resisted.
Let not these occupy my soul; let God rather occupy it, who made these things, very good indeed, yet is He my good, not they.
Let me not be mine own life; from myself I lived ill, death was I to myself; and I revive in Thee.
E. M. Bounds 4
God wants consecrated men because they can pray and will pray.
The prayer life is the direct fruit of entire consecration to God.
No man can pray — really pray — who does not obey.
The will must be surrendered to God as a primary condition of all successful praying.
Gareth Evans 2
Faith is an attribute of the heart and is evidenced in obedience.
Faith does not need a man to understand and believe; it needs anyone who will obey, even when he does not understand or believe!
Hudson Taylor 6
Nearness to God calls for tenderness of conscience, thoughtfulness in service, and implicit obedience.
Where that blessing is not enjoyed, there is always something unreal or defective in the consecration.
It may be that we have separated ourselves to carry out our own will, or thought, or plan of service, instead of surrendering ourselves and our will, to learn and to do His will.
We have to take our choice: we cannot enjoy both the world and Christ.
Self-will is unmingled folly, and can only end in injury and loss.
Self-denial surely means something far greater than some slight insignificant lessening of our self-indulgences!
John Wesley 3
A man may be in God’s favour though he feel sin; but not if he yields to it.
If you move but one step towards God, you are not as other men are.
The love of the creature is changed to the love of the Creator; the love of the world into the love of God.
Thomas à Kempis 4
No man commands safely unless he has learned well how to obey.
To walk with God interiorly, to be free from any external affection—this is the state of the inward man.
Whatever is not God is nothing and must be accounted as nothing.
A man’s true progress consists in denying himself, and the man who has denied himself is truly free and secure.