I Surrender All: 30 Classic Hymns (1997) The Holmes Brothers, on their album Promised Land (1997) Ruben Studdard, on his album I Need an Angel (2004) Amy Grant, on her album Rock of Ages... Hymns and Faith (2005) Oslo Gospel Choir, on their live album We Lift Our Hands (2005) Brian Littrell, on the album WOW Hymns (2007) Phil Driscoll, on his album Songs in the Key of Worship (2008) Michael W. Smith, with Coalo Zamorano, on his album A New Hallelujah (2008) Selah, on their album You Deliver Me (2009) Kathy Troccoli, on her album Worshipsongs: 'Tis So Sweet (2013) Newsboys, on their album Hallelujah for the Cross (2014) June Hunt, on her album Songs of Surrender Carrie Underwood, on her album My Savior (2021) Text Theological historian Charles H. Lippy notes that the hymn's text expresses values of "victorious life" concepts of late 19th-century evangelism. The victorious life entailed total surrender to Divine will in order to triumph over the problems of daily existence. Lippy summarizes this as follows: "[T]hrough absolute surrender to the power of the Holy Spirit, by giving the self over to possession by the supernatural, one could triumph and thus attain power and control over the course of one's life." In keeping with the gospel tradition, "I Surrender All" repeats key words throughout the hymn. Each stanza begins with "All to Jesus I surrender". The hymn's chorus repeats "I surrender all" three times, and an additional two times in the men's part. The entire hymn, if sung with each refrain and second-voice part, contains the word "surrender" 30 times, and the word "all" 43 times. The hymn's first stanza stresses complete surrender: "All to him I freely give". The second stanza surrenders worldly pleasures, and the third prays to "feel the Holy Spirit". Stanza four asks to be filled with Jesus's love, power, and blessing. In the fifth stanza, the singer feels "the sacred flame" – an image of the Holy Spirit – and the joy of "full salvation" born of surrender. Lyrics All to Jesus I surrender, All to him I freely give; I will ever love and trust him, In his presence daily live. Refrain: I surrender all, I surrender all, All to thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all. All to Jesus I surrender, Humbly at his feet I bow, Worldly pleasures all forsaken, Take me, Jesus, take me now. (Refrain)