Quotes About Surrender

He is beyond our reach. We must give him to the Lord and pray the Lord gives him back to us again.

stopped struggling. He sagged against

letter. That's exactly what I am in God's hand—a little pencil. God is writing his love letter to the world in this way, through works of love.

GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.

But my family belongs to God. I don't know if you understand how deep that goes, but nothing can touch us that doesn't first touch His nail-scarred hands. He has a plan. And ultimately, He's in control. Obviously, we need to be sensible. But we don't have to walk around terrified to move.

Don't just ask God to use you; ask Him to use you up. Then pray more than you've ever prayed before to be able to keep that commitment!

Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start abandoning our defenses. We learn that the way things are is simply the way they are meant to be right now, and then, suddenly, at long last, we catch a glimpse of the abundance in the moment--abundance even in the face of things falling apart.

You people will offer anything to God. Your hearts…your bodies…even your lives.

Whatever it takes to get you to the place where God is your all in all and you live in total dependence on Him is worth the pain. Let

glorious aspects? Do you desire to truly walk by the Spirit, not giving in to the pull of the world and the flesh? Do you yearn for God's balm to heal the wounds of the past? Would you like to face each day with quiet confidence and bold faith, fully prepared to cope with whatever it brings? All this and more—all the abundance of life promised by Christ—comes with surrender, my friend. For believers, surrendering to God is not a one-time occurrence;

In it she told me, "Thanks a lot! I'm ruined - gloriously ruined." I nodded with sudden understanding. "that's it - that describes what has happened to me." I was ruined for life as I had known it before, but gloriously ruined!

You enjoy things less when you are always trying to control things instead of just living.

Love is the madness which allows us to believe in magic.

A lot of folks would do more prayin' if they could find a soft spot for their knees.

Notice that the only place you will find peace is in surrendering your heart, mind, thoughts, and desires to Jesus Christ. In Jesus you will have peace. This peace means harmony, wholeness, and a secure feeling that everything will be all right. Many things in this world will try to rob you of peace, such as anxiety, depression, discouragement, jealousy, anger, bitterness and other negative characteristics and emotions

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

That forgiveness is the power to resist bitterness. And surrender, the power to resist selfishness.

A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance… like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care any more about anything but himself and his dying.

Trusting God does not mean believing he will do what you want, but rather believing he will do everything he knows is good.

The more you make Jesus the treasure of your heart, the less room there will be in your life for idols.

I was slowly learning that love did not mean holding on, which I had always thought, but rather letting go.

I have learned that there's no way to open yourself to the experience of God while retaining your cool, your sense of ironic detachment.

Sa sultanijom je nestalo jedino bi?e na svijetu koje joj je moglo nametnuti svoj zakon...

Growing up, women were not the mystery—I knew how they worked, or thought I did. Men were the mystery, obscure in their violences and their lusts and their ability to catch. Yet for many years I didn't try to conform to "straight-acting" norms. I didn't think I could—and perhaps achieved an integrity in that surrender. Ironically,