Quotes About Surrender

If you hold on to the handle, she said, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.

This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust me on this, you'll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that's exactly what you want to do most & then it won't weigh a thing anymore

It's not surrendering to the Universe, he told me, if all you're doing is sitting around waiting for it to turn out like you hope. —Partial Surrender

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

As long as you are following God's will, friend Kline. But even God sometimes becomes impatient. You know the story of Jonah, friend Kline? How many whales do you suppose God will deign send to swallow you? When does God run out of whales?

Obedience liberates me from the tiny world of the ego.

my life is poured out like a liquid offering to God over your sacrificial and surrendered lives of faith.

So above all, constantly chase after the realm of God's kingdomaa and the righteousness that proceeds from him. Then all these less important things will be given to you abundantly.

Whatever terrific events may inform our lives, it always comes to that in the end; we just want to lie down.

God does not choose people because of their ability, but because of their availability.

What is it, Lord?" What am I holding back? What am I using as an excuse for not serving You in whatever You want me to do?" And then, there by the canal, I finally had my answer. My "yes" to God had always been a "yes, but." Yes, but I'm not educated. Yes, but I'm lame. With the next breath, I did say "Yes." I said it in a brand-new way, without qualification. "I'll go, Lord

Time and place are our own limitations, Andy; we mustn't impose them upon God.

I could hardly wait to tell Corrie what God had done with the thimbleful of willingness we had offered Him.

I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all about my relationship with God. There is no higher calling, no loftier dream, and no greater goal than to live, breathe, and be poured out for Jesus Christ." --Jamie in Brother Andrew's "The Calling

Whenever, wherever, however You want me, I'll go. And I'll begin this very minute. Lord, as I stand up from this place, and as I take my first step forward, will You consider this is a step toward complete obedience to You? I'll call it the step of yes.

All that is necessary is a heart dedicated entirely and solely to Him out of love for Him above all others.

This made me resolve to give the all for the all; so after having given myself wholly to GOD, that He might take away my sin, I renounced, for the love of Him, everything that was not He; and I began to live as if there was none but He and I in the world.

in difficulties we need only have recourse to JESUS CHRIST, and beg his grace; with that everything became easy.

To succeed in giving ourselves to God as much as He desires, we must

Sometimes I consider myself there as a stone before a carver, whereof he is to make a statue; presenting myself thus before GOD, I desire Him to form His perfect image in my soul, and make me entirely like Himself.

Imagine a world with just you and God. In this world, you have a present, personal, and indisputable sense that He is all yours and you are all His.

Gradually train yourself to show your love for Him by asking for His grace. Offer your heart to Him at every moment

Before he had experienced God's swift help in his affairs, he had attempted to plan every detail, doing the job in his own strength. Now, though, acting with childlike simplicity in God's sight, he did everything for the love of God, thanking Him for His guidance.

Yet, strain does not seem to do good. At the moment I feel something "let go" inside, lo, God is here! It is a heart-melting "here-ness," a lovely whispering of father to child; and the reason I did not have it before was that I had failed to let go.