Quotes About Surrender

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

The devil would gladly give a Bible to every man and promote obedience to its commands if in exchange we would surrender to him the Gospel

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.

No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.

God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.

Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.

The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

Meekness is the mark of a man who has been mastered by God.

God... God...dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God...

We must begin to understand that the gospel deconstructs a man before it reconstructs him. First it teaches him he is entitled to nothing, and then it give him everything.

Today I: smoke/am overweight/have a shitty attitude/am depressed because: my mom died of cancer/my uncle put his thumb up my butt/my dad hit me with a razor strop" seems kind of overly deterministic to Randy; it seems to reflect a kind of lazy or half-witted surrender to bald teleology.

Sometimes you have to do what you don't want to do in order to ensure that you won't have to keep on doing it! This apparent contradiction is part of the Divine

A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use