Quotes About Surrender

I'll break my staff,Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,And, deeper than did ever plummet sound,I'll drown my book.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide;It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.

There is no room for pride before the Lord, however high and privileged our service of Him may be.

Anxieties do not end in death. Anxieties end in God.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

As you open up your life to the Spirit's control, you do not get more of the Spirit, but He gets more of you.

The idea is to let it happen, not make it happen.

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the loreOf nicely calculated less or more.

Yet in the agony of my spirit in surrendering such a treasure I feel a thousand times richer than if I had never possessed it.

You will never find love until you stop looking.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

You might fight your enemy—that had respect in it. You might even kill him—respect again. But to do what the wasicu did: afflict your enemy with disease, pen him up, starve him, and then rescue his body on the condition that he surrender his spirit

when you drank, you lost control of your spirit. You had no power and no connection to Power.

We do emphasize the matter of working with God and not working for God by our own strength. Yes, we should work with God and even by God. But

Forget your situation, your condition, your failures, and your weaknesses and simply take time to enjoy the Lord. Take time to absorb Him, to assimilate the rich elements from Him as the soil. If you take time to absorb the Lord, you will be able to testify that in Christ you have no lack.

It is not to improve or reform oneself nor to forsake the evil and turn to the good, as people generally believe.

Rachel expected that God would give her a second son, but she did not know that this would cost her her life. Many of us have done the same thing. We prayed for a particular matter without knowing what it would cost to have our prayer answered.

The brass means, "Not I," and the lily means, "But Christ.

When you give up God, this forces God to give you up. If you let go of God, God will be compelled to let go of you. This is most deplorable. It is terrible to be given up by God.

The children of Israel fought not only with God but also for God.

Lord, I contact You in Your way. I don't contact You by my thought, concept, or knowledge. Lord, You are my way.

Christianity has never been cheap; it was always meant to cost us our very lives.

As the company of the redeemed, we do not belong to ourselves anymore; we belong to God and therefore to God's community.