Maria Monk Quotes

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

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

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

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

God deserves the best from us.

'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.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

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.

While salvation is a free gift, the 'winning Christ' can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a hardship, but the highest privilege.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

If the leadership asks me to die a martyr, I am ready ... and if they ask me to resign, I am also ready

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.

I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.

The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.