Quotes About Surrender

Aynen öyle de geçmi? ve gelecek elemli saatleri –ki hiç ve ma'dum ve yok olmu?lar– ?imdi dü?ünüp sab?rs?zl?k göstermek ve kusurlu nefsini b?rak?p Allah'tan ?ekva etmek gibi "Of, of!" etmek divaneliktir. E?er sa?a sola yani geçmi? ve geleceklere sab?r kuvvetini da??tmazsa ve haz?r saate ve güne kar?? tutsa tam kâfi gelir. S?k?nt? ondan bire iner.

Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret, as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord; but, even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened. They take God's ticket to heaven, and then put their baggage on their shoulders, and tramp, tramp, the whole way there afoot.

God can only be met in emptiness, by those who come in love, abandoning all effort to control, every need to astound.

One's self is ever a tenuous thing, discovered only in relinquishment.

I resolved that if the heavens were going to pour liquid on my head, I would pour much more down my throat.

Do your best and let God do the rest.

I wonder if we have it all backward. And I wonder how the world might be if we viewed the very reason for our existence as being not about control and security but about surrender. Not to our fears and insecurities but to our sense of what is possible, to the belief that we all have the ability to shape the world as we imagine it, and that our actions reflect this imagined world until it becomes not imagined, but real.

If you've got a squirt gun in your pocket, you may have to take it out. If you've got a bazooka, and people know you've got it, you may not have to take it out," he said. Sometimes market fears can be self-fulfilling, and a strong demonstration can avoid the worst outcomes. I was reminded of the military doctrine of "overwhelming force" as the way to prompt quick surrender and minimize casualties.

But at the bottom," he writes in his powerful memoir Den of Lions, "in surrender so complete there is no coherent thought, no real pain, no feeling, just exhaustion, just waiting, there is something else. Warmth/light/softness. Acceptance, by me, of me. Rest. After a while, some strength. Enough, for now.

Your love is like a tidal wave, spinning over my head Drownin' me in your promises, better left unsaid

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

You will be much more in control, if you realize how much you are not in control.

When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.

Things may get a little odd at times, but they work out. You don't have to try very hard to make them work out; you just let them.

What happens to a marriage when one partner ignores the other? After a short period of time bitterness begins to enter the heart. Words begin to cut like a sharp knife. Soon the animosity turns to anger, jealousy, and even worse. For many it results in separation, divorce, and hatred. But the rift can so easily be mended.All it takes is a fresh surrender that comes from your very soul.And a renewing of the vow to "love, honor, and cherish.

Give up the old so God can perform the new in your life.

La rendición total trae llenura total, y su misión total trae comunión total. Pero como el matrimonio, tienes que trabajar en eso cada día: «Jesús, yo te amo»; «Padre Dios yo te adoro»; «Precioso Espíritu Santo, anhelo tu comunión». Si descuidas la comunicación sólo un día, la próxima vez será un poco más difícil.

No dejes pasar un día sin una rendición fresca al Señor. Pablo escribió: «Por tanto, no desmayamos; antes aunque este nuestro hombre exterior se va gastando, el interior no obstante se renueva de día en día» (2 Corintios 4.16). La rendición tiene que ser continua, un interminable vaciarse de uno mismo ante el Señor. Y cuando lo hayas hecho un hábito, comenzarás a experimentar la unión perfecta, comunión perfecta, entendimiento perfecto y amor perfecto.

The practice of the presence of the Lord begins when Jesus becomes more real to us than our problems, our families, our troubles, and even more real than life itself. At that moment, it is all about Jesus.

Waiting upon the Lord disarms the flesh. It allows you time to forget about yourself and see Jesus. It dismantles the powers of sin. It gives you Holy Spirit strength in your inner man, and the flesh begins to lose its grip on your life.

Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941, we had this war in Hong Kong, I fought for the government as an air raid warden for 15 days. Our government surrendered, Hong Kong Government surrendered, so I took a junk and came to Macau in 16 hours and I was a refugee, so that's why I was so much indebted to Macau.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

Regardless of what you're searching, you ain't gonna find it until you include God. Because, if you have a problem with women, drugs, or whatever the case may be, the only person that can fix that problem is God.

I can only see what's in front of me, but God can see what's behind, what's ahead of me, what's beside me, and it just makes it so much easier to release control, cuz at the end of the day, if He brought me to it, He's gonna have to bring me through it.