Edith Stein Quotes

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.

You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

I've been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

To do my duty, I must obey God.

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'

I can't sing, perform, do anything apart from Christ. I have no power or strength of my own.

We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God.

Chop off that head which does not bow to the Lord, O Nanak.

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

After 'The Hurt & The Healer', we kind of hit a wall. I grew up in a somewhat legalistic church and it taught me that faith is enough, but here's three more things left just in case. There's always things left to do to be closer to God.

I gave my life to Christ, and I thought that would be it for me, and He was, like, 'No, you're not finished with acting; acting is not finished with you. This is your talent. Go back into it, but you're going back into it with a heart that's not obsessive over it.'

I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.