Quotes About Surrender

The more you try to grip control of your life the more God's gonna untangle that from you. He's going to make things go where you have to rely on Him.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

Everything we own really belongs to God, we are just renting it, and when we die those things are going to become somebody else's possessions.

When you start forcing things, that's when you get hurt.

You can't believe how different your life can be until you've immersed yourself in faith or given your life up to Christ or decided you have a higher power you want to follow.

The major problem with the notion of transformation is that it forever hangs on to some form of self and never lets it go. It perpetuates the notion that self gets better and better, more and more divine, when in truth, the divine increases in proportion as the self decreases or falls away. The notion of a divinized self only increases or inflates the self; for those who buy into this notion, the journey may well end in total disillusionment. Offhand

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Usually, people die unknowingly. Come to think of it, can you die knowingly? Putting it akwardly: We are died as we are delivered. Nobody delivers himself on this planet, just as nobody dies himself off it. So dying is hard to define. The most satisfactory idea is that of a struggle near the exit, after which you are let through.

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us.  He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until we come to him and his plan for complete satisfaction.

I don't know how, but I know Who

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

Prayer Father God, there are times when we have felt that things have been taken away and stolen from us by the Enemy. Thank You that You sent Your Son Jesus to redeem our lives, to restore us, revive us, and renew us. Thank You for never forgetting us, no matter what our circumstances may tell us. Thank You for always loving us. We praise You for who You are, for all You have done and all You will do in our lives. In Jesus' name, Amen.

We must all serve God on the path we are given, milord. Even though that path may not be what we ourselves would choose.

God pays all bills He authorizes." When we take chances on our own, in ministry or business or finances, we take a risk. But if God directs us to do something, He will provide the desire, the means, the tools, and the wherewithal—and perhaps an angel—to help us.

Sometimes God gives you things not because you like them, but because you need them

Have ya ever thought that it's not what we think we ought to do that's essential for happiness, but what the Lord's leading us to do . . . and to be?" She smiled. "Ofttimes that can be two very different things.

God holds my tomorrows, she thought. I will be content with whatever comes my way.

Courage is fear on its knees.

I've learned that sometimes I have to give up my right to know and simply believe that God's knowing is enough.