Quotes About Surrender

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life.

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.

If at last thou attain the desire of thy life, Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!

When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.

If this is death, it is easier than life.

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.

If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.

Let go of the oars... Everything you want is downstream.

If life were stable, I'd never need God's help.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.

Hell is just resistance to life.

As your act of dedication in this world you must finally surrender your own life to a life of service.

The believer does not use God's power; God's power uses him.

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.

Strange how, after deciding to take life as one finds it, life comes fawning to one's hand.

The healthiest way I know how to move through an emotion effectively is to surrender completely to that emotion when its loop of physiology comes over me. I simply resign to the loop and let it run its course for 90 seconds. Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated. Over time, the intensity and frequency of these circuits usually abate. Really powerful thoughts

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

The believer can and will say no to any wrong desires when he has said a bigger yes to Christ's will for him.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.