Quotes About Surrender

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Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked will I return. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

Augustine of Hippo: "In affliction, then, we do not know what it is right to pray for. Because affliction is difficult, troublesome and against the grain for us, weak as we are, we do what every human would do. We pray that it may be taken away from us. However, if he does not take it away, we must not imagine that he has forgotten us. In this way, power shines forth more perfectly in weakness.

Prayer is less about trying to get God to do something we want God to do and more about getting ourselves to do what God wants us to do and to become who God wants us to become.

If I should fall from grace with God Where no doctor can relieve me If I'm buried 'neath the sod But the angels won't receive me Let me go, boys Let me go, boys Let me go down in the mud Where rivers all run dry

She can't worry. She can't 'fix.' She can't love.

Honey, love isn't like rappeling into a cave, where you can control your descent and how deep you go. It's just falling into the hole.

Perhaps the One knows that if I travel without anything else to rely on, I'll learn to rely more deeply on Him. (Susan Mitchell in THE DELIVERER)

To not know is then part of the gift you offer Him. It is where your obedience is tested.

I wanted the gift of the shortest and easiest path. Instead, He gave me the gift of holding me close and strengthening me for the hard path. It took me a long time to understand that both were gifts. And as I embraced the second, my need for the first lost its tormenting grip.

James reminds us: "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up" (James 4:10, NKJV).

She shook her head, but it was too late, and he was pulling her into his arms and bending his head to hers and she supposed that she could have stopped him. Should have stopped him. But no power in the world could have prevented her lips from parting in a sharp little gasp of remembered pleasure as he drove his mouth down like a man who had been starved of kisses.

If she had known all that right from the beginning, then why hadn't she stopped? Why give into something which you knew instinctively was doomed on so many levels? Because human nature wasn't like that. It made you reach out and grab at the unreachable.

It is better to bow to the dictates of the wind than to try to chase or chain it.

My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing — I've never planned anything that ever happened to me.

If we are willing to be molded by His hands, the Lord will shower us, our men, and our relationships with abundance.

The highest call for all who know the Lord is to deliver to Jesus everything that belongs to him. It is not limited to spending time in religious activities sponsored by ministries and organizations; although these are valuable, we need to have an equal value for callings in any arena.

Perhaps we can only give in total beauty and simplicity in the moment of our dying, because that is the only giving that demands no return.

Her death...brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault.

I really believe things happen as they're supposed to and in the time that they're supposed to.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

Speak, Lord"; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, "Speak, Lord."

Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.

Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery.