Quotes About Surrender

I just let it roll. Like a hot turd down a hill.

There will always be something to ruin our lives. It all depends on what or which finds us first. You're always ripe and ready to be taken.

Well, we lost it, and that's all there is to that.

Well, as the boys said, you had to work somewhere. So they accepted what there was. This was the wisdom of the slave.

Living was easy - all you had to do was let go. And have a little money. Let the other men fight the wars, let the other men go to jail.

Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives and deaths to simple ritual….how we said no, no, no, no to the most beautiful YES ever uttered - life itself.

è sempre un processo di lasciar perdere, in un modo o nell'altro.

kahretsin, kaybetmemiz mümkün deÄŸilmiÅŸ gibi gelmiÅŸti bize ama kaybettik...

Father of mine, I abandon myself to you, make of me that which is pleasing to you. Whatever you might do to me, I thank you.

Crosses release us from this world, and by doing so, bind us to God. —Charles de Foucauld

By sheer grace, God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world. " —LIFE TOGETHER

There is no place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world." —ETHICS

If you aren't vigilant, if you aren't daily humbling yourself before Him, seeking His face, discerning His timing, operating under the Spirit's control, you may push and shove and force your way prematurely into that place where God wanted you, but you will not have arrived in His own time.

You and I can become so dedicated to the will of God, we can be so driven by a false sense of purpose, that we might inadvertently take matters into our own hands and leave God completely out of the loop.

A. W. Tozer says, A true and safe leader is likely one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and by the press of the external situation.

ask yourself, Who's getting the glory in this ministry? You see, if we do ministry OUR way, it won't be for His glory, because our ways are not His ways.

Hold everything loosely.

Cuanto más vivo, y cuanto más cerca de Cristo camino, mayor es mi convicción de que él no se toma el tiempo de explicar el por qué. De modo que confiamos en él a lo largo de la vida sin la expectativa de que sea respondido el «por qué».

The size of a challenge should never be gauged in terms of our capability. What we have to offer will never be enough. God never calls us to provide; that's His responsibility. Instead, He calls us to commit whatever we have—even if it's no more than a sack lunch. His call comes with a promise:

Third, God the Spirit will show us how to live and die as we learn how to release whatever has us in its grip. (That last phrase wasn't a mistake.) As long as we're owned by whatever we're clutching, we'll never be given over completely to the Holy Spirit. This would be an excellent moment for you to do some self-analysis. To what, to whom are you clinging? Let it go. Let them go.

When God's in it ... it flows. When the flesh is in it ... it's forced.

As long as we hold onto our own desires and remain fixated on having our way, we will be unable to see God, even if He were to stand right before our eyes. God, in His patient, sometimes painful mercy, allows us to hold our desires as tightly as we wish until we tire of the pain and loosen our grip. Meanwhile, He holds before us a divine alternative, one that offers great abundance in exchange for the trinkets we clutch with desperate resolve.

When you are in the center of God's will, my friend, it flows.

La oración me hace esperar. No puedo orar y trabajar al mismo tiempo. Tengo que esperar hasta que termine la oración para actuar. La oración me obliga a abandonar la situación en las manos de Dios; me hace esperar.