Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

Get low; grace will meet you there.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

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

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

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

Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.

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.

Whenever it happens it is never late; whenever it happens it is always early. The happening is so great that you cannot claim it for yourself. You cannot say: 'I have earned it.' The happening is so great that it is always through grace and not through effort. It happens through effortlessness. Whenever it happens, you know well that it is through compassion, grace, that it has happened. It has nothing to do with you or your earning

The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

But surrender also means your back's to the wall and saying, "Okay, I give up." But rather it's a joyful self-offering. When you come to the point of realizing that "I never get it right. I always make a mess of things; I can't do anything right. Let him do it." And then you ask his power to do it through you and you find suddenly that it works that way.

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

Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

When we say yes to the grace of God, we are learning how to die.