Quotes About Surrender

Rather, the reason for our loving surrender to God is that we desire to be able to love as we are loved

Have no expectations except to be fiercely tempted to your last breath.

The purpose of a written constitution is to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.

Divine love is infused in the seedbed of total submission and self-surrender and brings us through the night of spirit into the transforming union.

By consenting to God's creation, to our basic goodness as human beings, and to the letting go of what we love in this world, we are brought to the final surrender, which is to allow the false self to die and the true self to emerge. The true self might be described as our participation in the divine life manifesting in our uniqueness.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

was driven by the will to negate what one fears. No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.

And I succumbed to an ecstatic horror at this insight.

When you're on your last legs, whether you're confined to a bed or screaming in a crashed-up car, many things may occur to you. Something that won't occur to you, either confined to a bed or screaming, is that it doesn't matter what you did or didn't do during your existence.

But that is the way of the body. You are bound to surrender to its most eccentric turns.

Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.

he'd spent his whole life trying to make God love him—and that this didn't matter in the slightest. All that mattered was that he loved God. He told me that once he knew this he was home free.

Sleep is the little brother of death; it means letting go of the world.

He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine, he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays for sunshine. He follows the same idea in everything that he prays for; for what is the amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? It is as if he were to say—- thou knowest not so well as I.

The feeling came upon him one night as he lay asleep under his new Rabbit blanket with his two daughters and their mother that his Power had gone to another place; even the strength running deep in his bones fled.

It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.

Unless we deny our own will, we shall never do God's will.

A contented Christian does not seek to choose his cross but leaves God to choose for him. He is content with both for the kind and the duration. A contented spirit says, 'let God apply what medicine he pleases and let it remain as long as it will, I know that when it has done it's cure and eaten the venom of sin out of my heart, God will take it off again.

In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.

What is it to glorify God? Glorifying God consists in four things: 1. Appreciation, 2. Adoration, 3. Affection, 4. Subjection. This is the yearly rent we pay to the crown of heaven.

The more work we do for God, the more willing we shall be to die, and the sweater death will be.

God would have us part with nothing for Him, but that which will damn us if we keep it.