Quotes About Surrender

the Himalayas, how grand and beautiful they are; I love them. They do not give me anything, but my nature is to love the grand, the beautiful, therefore I love them. Similarly, I love the Lord. He is the source of all beauty, of all sublimity. He is the only object to be loved; my nature is to love Him, and therefore I love. I do not pray for anything; I do not ask for anything. Let Him place me wherever He likes. I must love Him for love's sake. I cannot trade in love.

Whatever thou worshippest, whatever thou perceivest, whatever thou doest, give up all unto Him and be at rest.

We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.

God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.

The bed becomes your church; you pass the collection plate back and forth until you've given too much, then your poverty becomes your gift.... And though, in days or months or years to come, you'll swear you were fooling yourself, you weren't; it really happened.... above you for a moment hovered the dove.

I think you can lower your weapon now.

His head was barely above water, and he'd never welcomed drowning so much in his whole damn life.

We don't get a choice about what hand we are dealt in this life.

great fact that no man can live the Christian life; there is only One Who can live that life, and that is Christ Himself. We must have such an experimental incorporation into Him that He lives His life through us as members of His one Body, so that "to me to live is Christ" and "it is no longer I... but Christ.

Because the world sometimes conspires against us even as we embrace it. And sometimes the world embraces us, even as we forsake it. Maybe this is God, she thinks. This quiet, easy truth. And religion, the acceptance of it.

You will never realize that Jesus is all you need, before he becomes all you have.

Your hindrance? Trying to build your dream without the Dreammaker.

If you are searching for the secret of true joy, and victorious Holy Spirit-filled Christ living, the answer is simply this: Die! Die and keep on dying daily until all of you is dead and only Christ lives. Death is the key to life and life more abundantly.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

One description of faith involves letting go of our resistance to receiving.

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

Si vous acceptez la mort ici et maintenant, votre vie sera plus profonde. Il ne faut pas être attaché à la vie. Ni à la mort.

Quand on doit mourir, on meurt, et on retourne au cosmos.

Shall we surrender?' he said mildly. 'I think we should. After all we outnumber him only fifteen to one, we have only muskets to oppose his bow, and we are surrounded. Or at least I think we are. How is it that one man can surround fifteen? Please clear up this mystery for me.

Lord, let us not hold tight to those earthly things we long for lest You be torn from our grasp.

It wasn't the hand a person was dealt that determined the outcome—it was the person holding the cards who made the difference. And he'd laid his cards down long ago. At the foot of the cross.

it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice.

Neem wat je wil, zegt God, en betaal er voor (Spaans gezegde).