Quotes About Surrender

True love of God means surrender to him, wanting nothing, not even salvation. (FT 216-217)

Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.

Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.

When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God.

D.L. Moody heard somebody say that the world has not yet seen what God could do with one man who would be totally surrendered to Him. And D.L. Moody said, "I want to be that man.

It was much easier to obey God when he said, "Fight!" or "Argue!" or "Sacrifice yourself!" But when he said, "Wait!"—that made things hard. Ari was good at that sort of thing. He

Somehow, with the passage of time, and the deadlines that life imposes, surrendering became the right thing to do.

Somehow, with passage of time, and the deadlines that life imposes, surrendering became the right thing to do.

El truco está en entregarse por completo, vivir el momento y, cuando haya pasado, no tener de qué arrepentirse ni volver la vista atrás. Ser

We cannot deceive ourselves about offering the whole world as a sacrifice if we ourselves do not die to the world. Saint Paul, after his exhortation to offer our bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, continued, "do not be confirmed to this world" (Romans 12:2), and elsewhere he declared, "The world has been crucified to me, and I to the world" (Galatians 6:14)

Let us have no more suicide from weariness, which comes like a final sacrifice crowning all those that have gone before. Better one last laugh à la Cravan, or one last song à la Ravachol.

But Nadja sensed his intention and said, It was just a game. You take captivity too seriously. If anything, surrender will liberate you from the burden of yourself.

We spend vast amounts of time and energy crafting a thesis in our heads of how life should play out. Then Almighty God spends an incredibly brief amount of time blowing our thesis to bits.

God, thank You that regardless of what You call me to lay on the altar in obedience to You, You always know what is best, and You always have a plan.

True liberty comes with the abandonment of self in our worshiping God, freeing us to worship in His way, not ours.

Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don't have to know everything about it; you just do it.

Authentic Christianity is not increasing levels of commitment grudgingly given to God; it is surrender to Jesus out of a sense of privilege in having him.

In response to the good news of all that Jesus has done, I hurl myself at him as my only hope.

It's a lot easier to let someone else be Caesar.

Maybe I wasn't meant to have everything - personal happiness doesn't seem to be on the cards.

I became a Catholic against my will.

When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.

I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church.

Christian life means sacrifice.