Quotes About Surrender

Following God's commands always leads to blessing. — Sarah Bergman —

when we invite Him into our lives. — Mark Littleton —

Giving is about letting go and trusting God, even when others don't understand. — Sandy Cathcart —

In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God, who raises the dead. —2 Corinthians 1:9

No matter where we are in life's journey, we remain in the hands of God.

yield to Christ regardless of our circumstances. — Kitty Chappell —

Confidence in God's perfect love for our loved ones frees us to release them into His capable hands. — Michele Cushatt

When I see Him, I want to hear, "You were willing and obedient. You have a soft heart." — Susan J. Reinhardt —

Suddenly, a man with leprosy approached him and knelt before him. "Lord," the man said, "if you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean." Jesus reached out and touched him. "I am willing," he said. "Be healed!" And instantly the leprosy disappeared. —Matthew 8:2–3

God often shuts us in so that we have no choice but to love. — Ann Varnum —

I entrust my spirit into your hand. —Psalm 31:5

When we truly love God, we live His commandments almost without thinking about them. — Zach Davidson —

It's not cheating to ask God to take over when we run out. — Ramona Nicks

So Peter went over the side of the boat and walked on the water toward Jesus. —Matthew 14:29

I didn't know it, but I was at war with myself and I was losing.

Let J or the Holy Spirit make your decisions for you whenever you have the time to ask.

It's okay to give up on a dream. The majority of dreams don't come true. Our whole country is learning as much.

David G. Benner has defined spiritual direction as a prayer process in which a person seeking help in cultivating a deeper personal relationship with God meets another for prayer and conversation that is focused on increasing awareness of God in the midst of life experiences and facilitating surrender to God's will (2002:94).

Faith is, at heart, the central relationship that gives meaning to our life; we are able to interpret our experiences in light of that relationship. Or as Katherine Dyckman and L. Patrick Carroll put it, To `faith' is to hand over the direction of one's journey to another, to yield up . . . `the illusion of control' to someone who is essentially beyond our control, over whom we have no power (1981:8 9).

Realizing that one does not have to worry about what will happen, that the future is in God's hands, is liberating.

We say, I will, and I will not, and imagine ourselves (though we obey the orders of some prosaic person every day) our own masters, when the truth is that our masters are sleeping. One wakes within us and we are ridden like beasts, though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of ourselves.

You can't be stuck if you're not trying to get anywhere. Which, to me, means that when you stop fighting with the way things are, magic happens. You relax, open, and any action you take comes from alignment with what's true.

Stephen Levine, a Buddhist teacher, says that hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else. Being constantly agitated—another word for nonaccepting—about the inevitable. Being in a relationship with someone and refusing to surrender to the love because you don't want to give yourself to something you will eventually lose.

thinking of giving up is probably the one thing that's kept me going. I think about it on a daily basis but always come up against the problem of what to do when I've given up. Give up one thing and you're immediately obliged to do something else. The only way to give up totally is to kill yourself but that one act requires an assertion of will equal to the total amount that would be expanded in the rest of a normal lifetime.