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Quotes About Surrender

Take my day, take my night, take my sunrise, take my life.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
I guess that's what my dad did. Stopped agreeing with reality. I could do it for as long as it took me to get from my classroom to the office. He managed it for sixteen years. He must have had more mental discipline than me. Or maybe it wasn't that much of an effort to pretend that I didn't exist.
~ Sarah Bird
Maybe it's time to stop creating God in our image and let Him create you in His.
~ Mark Batterson
Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
~ Antonio Porchia
and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.
~ Paul Hawken
When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!" ~Jim Elliot
~ Elisabeth Elliot
It's time to let go, be guided and expect miracles.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.
~ George Washington
I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against something bigger than ourselves.
~ Jon Foreman
[Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another.
~ Teresa of Avila
Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.
~ Kenny Werner
If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.
~ Philip Yancey
I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.
~ William Nicholson
But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.
~ Isak Dinesen
You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.
~ Amy Welborn
This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.
~ Jay Asher
Stress is the result of not listening to your heart. If you ignore it for too long, and surrender your power to someone else, your chest will explode with panic. I take plenty of time for me.
~ Jason Mraz
Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.
~ Jeff Henderson
Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.
~ Oswald Chambers
When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.
~ Oswald Chambers
Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.
~ Robert Jordan
You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.
~ Stephenie Meyer