Quotes About Surrender

One thing I do know is that when I hold on tightly to the old things, God cannot fill my hands with the new.

one of the marvelous results of obedience is that we actually get to receive and experience the "everything good" that is from God to us.

Working for love instead of from love is the result of making self the God of your heart.

David teaches us that we worship God before, during, and after our battles.

Go with the flow always. Don't push the river.

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered

David Platt states, It makes little sense for us to keep asking, "What do you want me to do, God?" the answer is clear. The will of God is for you and me to give our lives urgently and recklessly to make the gospel and glory of God known among all peoples.

In order to live as a slave of Jesus Christ, you must recognize the truth that God owns you. He created you. Every part of your mind, soul, and spirit was made by the creative breath of God.

Are you open to the possibility that there is one who created you to be who you are and calls you to be who he alone knows you can be? Then listen to Jesus of Nazareth and his two words that changed the world—"Follow me." —OS GUINNESS

Ernst Junger agreed that the defender had no moral right to surrender in these circumstances: "the defending force, after driving their bullets into the attacking one at five paces' distance, must take the consequences. A man cannot change his feelings again during the last rush with a veil of blood before his eyes. He does not want to take prisoners but to kill." During

He took, He blessed, He brake, and He gave. These four steps follow in progressive order in the lives of each of His disciples. He takes us into His arms when He saves us. He blesses us with the Holy Spirit. He breaks us at the cross. He gives us to others in ministry. We must experience the breaking of our self-life, however, before He can give us to His body as a ministry gift.

There are no answers. There is only obedience.

Everything is on the table and nothing on the altar.

Men fear joy too much, fear their instincts. Fear a surrender to their feelings. Fear loving themselves in others and loving others in themselves. Fear loving their true gods.

Live as long as you can. Die when you can't help it.

The line in this song that slayed me the first time I heard it, and slays me every time I hear it, is 'I cannot explain the way that You came to love me, except to say that nothing is beyond You.

he had let go of the need to earn God's love

What chains can hold belongs to men. The rest is Gods.

When working outside I am governed by Gods time clock not mine and cannot do anything about the weather

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.

All of us need to leave things behind in order to follow God. For some of us, it is addictive patterns of behavior, for others an overweening emphasis on our own success, for others the adulation of the crowd. It helps sometimes to look not just at what we're leaving behind and what God promises us, but also at what God has shown us already. Just look at all those fish.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in hell, choose it.

The real response to the problem of human sin must always be that I cannot do anything to erase it.